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mal,
mɔːl,
mɒl/
n.
- a large enclosed shopping area from which traffic is excluded.
- a sheltered walk or promenade.
- historical another term for pall-mall.
▸a pall-mall alley.
Etymology
C17 (in sense 3): prob. a shortening of pall-mall; sense 2 from The Mall, a walk in St James's Park, London, former site of a pall-mall alley.
