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n. - A 17th century game.

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  • "We can, perhaps, lay out a course of pall-mall here as well," Mary told her Marys, who were dutifully trotting along behind her.
  • As the game of pall-mall went out of fashion the Mall became a promenade, and was the resort of the Court.
  • But my answers were always, "Oh, nothing but Castlemain's new tantrum," or "The duke's defeat at pall-mall."
  • Frances and I walked over to the park, where we stood for a time watching the Duke of York and John Churchill playing pall-mall, but the day growing cold, we soon...
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