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Synonyms for mall

Grammar : Noun
Spell : mawl; British also mal
Phonetic Transcription : mɔl; British also mæl

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Définition of mall

Origin :
  • 1737, "shaded walk serving as a promenade," generalized from The Mall, name of a broad, tree-lined promenade in St. James's Park, London (so called from 1670s, earlier Maill, 1640s), which was so called because it formerly was an open alley that was used to play pall-mall, a croquet-like game involving hitting a ball with a mallet through a ring, from French pallemaille, from Italian pallamaglio, from palla "ball" (see balloon) + maglio "mallet" (see mallet). Modern sense of "enclosed shopping gallery" is from 1963. Mall rat is from 1985.
  • noun commercial complex with many individual retail stores
  • noun shopping center
  • noun promenade
Example sentences :
  • Aimless also, I turned into the Mall, and again I started at the sight of a known figure.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • They walked slowly, still talking, until they came to the end of the Mall.
  • Extract from : « The Cosmic Computer » by Henry Beam Piper
  • There were more men at work on the Mall and along the streets on either side.
  • Extract from : « The Cosmic Computer » by Henry Beam Piper
  • I told him everything you told me, out on the Mall, the day you came home.
  • Extract from : « The Cosmic Computer » by Henry Beam Piper
  • “The Mall is where the fine people walk in the afternoon,” she said.
  • Extract from : « A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony » by Alice Turner Curtis
  • Hence the Mall and Pall-Mall, where games like croquet were played.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of Words (4th ed.) » by Ernest Weekley
  • “They be good eggs, Tabitha, and Mall wist well how to dress them,” he urged.
  • Extract from : « All's Well » by Emily Sarah Holt
  • In the summer evenings these fields are almost the sole promenade; and the Mall, or public walk of the town is entirely deserted.
  • Extract from : « Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 » by Lt-Col. Pinkney
  • On went Ferrers, and soon found himself in the Mall of the Park.
  • Extract from : « Ernest Maltravers, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • The trees of the Mall are shaking their heavy tears upon me.
  • Extract from : « A Son of the Middle Border » by Hamlin Garland
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