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Related to Italian trucco (also known as lawn billiards or trucks in English) and similar games, pall-mall is an early modern development from jeu de mail, a French form of ground billiards. The name comes from the Italian pallamaglio, which literally means ' ball mallet ', ultimately derived from Latin palla, meaning 'ball', and malleus ...
Pall Mall was one of the first streets in London to have gas lighting. Pall Mall was the location of the War Office from 1855 to 1906, [23] with which it became synonymous (just as Whitehall refers to the administrative centre of the UK government). The War Office was accommodated in a complex of buildings based on the ducal mansion, Cumberland ...
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 ...
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 ...
The British Institution building from a wood-engraving in London (1851) edited by Charles Knight. The British Institution (in full, the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom; founded 1805, disbanded 1867) was a private 19th-century society in London formed to exhibit the works of living and dead artists; [1] it was also known as the Pall Mall Picture Galleries ...
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.
In 1900, Rothman opened a small showroom in Pall Mall, from where he launched his famous Pall Mall cigarette brand. His reputation was such that King Edward VII granted Rothmans a royal warrant in 1905. Rothmans was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1929. [3] In 1954, the Rembrandt Tobacco Company acquired a controlling interest in ...
Pall Mall, London, a street in the City of Westminster, London. Pall Mall, a long-running farm near Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales, named after the London street. Pall Mall, Tennessee, a small unincorporated community in Fentress County, Tennessee. Pall Mall (Bendigo), urban downtown area of Bendigo, Australia.