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Origin of Pall Mall

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barmy | 13:03 Tue 04th Dec 2007 | Phrases & Sayings
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There is a Pall Mall in London, and I have just discovered another one in Manchester.

Are there many others around Britain and what is the meaning of Pall Mall>

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I believe Pall Mall used to be a kind of ball game but I'm maybe wrong.
You are right squarebear, Pall Mall was a ball game.
This was a street game played in the 1700's on a thousand-yard-strip of land known as the mall. Players would hit a ball with a mallet as hard as possible to run it down the mall, and at the end, a specially shaped spoon-like stick was used to hoike it through a raised metal ring.

The origins of the word are French, and it leads to the expression 'pell mell' meaning a group of people running in confusion.

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