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Pall-mall, paille-maille, palle-maille, pell-mell, or palle-malle (/ ˈpælˈmæl /, / ˈpɛlˈmɛl /, also US: / ˈpɔːlˈmɔːl / [1][2]) is a lawn game (though primarily played on earth surfaces rather than grass) that was mostly played in the 16th and 17th centuries. [3] It is considered a precursor to croquet.
Pall Mall, London. Pall Mall / ˌpæl ˈmæl / ⓘ is a street in the St James's area of the City of Westminster, Central London. It connects St James's Street to Trafalgar Square and is a section of the regional A4 road. The street's name is derived from pall-mall, a ball game played there during the 17th century, which in turn is derived from ...
Pall-mall originated in the European courts of the 16th and 17th century and was popular in France, Holland and later England, Greig said. Its description bears many similarities to modern day ...
In Samuel Johnson's 1755 dictionary, his definition of "pall-mall" clearly describes a game with similarities to modern croquet: "A play in which the ball is struck with a mallet through an iron ring". [25] However, there is no evidence that pall-mall involved the croquet stroke, which is the distinguishing characteristic of the modern game.
[1] An article in the Pall Mall Gazette of 1890 on the practices in London shops uses the term: a "spiff" system is usually adopted, spiffs being premiums placed on certain articles, not of the last fashion, indicated by a marvelous hieroglyphic put on the price ticket. These marks are well known by the assistant, and the almost invisible ...
The Pall Mall brand was introduced in 1899 by the Black Butler Company (UK) in an attempt to cater to the upper class with the first "premium" cigarette. It is named after Pall Mall, a well-known street in the St James's area of London, containing several of the private clubs which such people patronized. In 1907, Pall Mall was acquired by the ...
Part of the trademark for Pall Mall cigarettes. "PALL MALL IN HOC SIGNO VINCES 'WHEREVER PARTICULAR PEOPLE CONGREGATE'" [9] [10] It is the public motto of the English Defence League, emblazoned around the group's logo. [11] The phrase is the motto on some Byzantine coins (e.g. the folles of Constans II). [12]
The Pall Mall Gazette was an evening newspaper founded in London on 7 February 1865 by George Murray Smith; its first editor was Frederick Greenwood. In 1921, The Globe merged into The Pall Mall Gazette, which itself was absorbed into The Evening Standard in 1923. Beginning late in 1868 and continuing at least through the 1880s, a selection or ...