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mall

[mawl, mal]

noun

  1. Also called shopping mall.a large retail complex containing a variety of stores and often restaurants and other business establishments housed in a series of connected or adjacent buildings or in a single large building.

  2. a large area, usually lined with shade trees and shrubbery, used as a public walk or promenade.

  3. Chiefly Upstate New York.a strip of land, usually planted or paved, separating lanes of opposite traffic on highways, boulevards, etc.

  4. the game of pall-mall.

  5. the mallet used in the game of pall-mall.

  6. the place or alley where pall-mall was played.



mall

/ mɔːl, mæl /

noun

  1. a shaded avenue, esp one that is open to the public

  2. short for shopping mall

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of mall1

1635–45; the Mall, a fashionable tree-lined promenade in 18th-century London, where originally the game pall-mall ( def. ) was played; mell 2
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of mall1

C17: after The Mall, in St James's Park, London. See pall-mall
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"I was doing shopping malls and showing up and thousands of people were rocking up."

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The complex remains, although it is now known as the California Market Center and functions as more of a high-end mall.

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Security footage captured inside a strip mall showed three male suspects casing a Simi Valley jewelry store days before it was burglarized last month for more than $3 million in jewelry and other valuables.

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Head into the basement of any bustling mall in Singapore and the chances are you will smell the sweetness of fresh, buttery baked goods.

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It reminds me a bit of mid-’80s PC work “Little Computer People,” as it turns the Switch 2 into a living, theme park-like mall space full of tiny humans.

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