pall-mall
商场,苍蝇馆子,苍井空,苍穹广场
Definitions
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- : a game, popular in the 17th century, in which a ball of boxwood was struck with a mallet in an attempt to drive it through a raised iron ring at the end of a playing alley.
- : a playing alley on which this game was played.
Examples
Your general reaction runs along the lines of: “When will these geezers give it up and go for a mall walk or something?”
It cast this pall over the movie, which was one of my favorites of last year.
They had to go to the bazaar -- as the mall was then called -- and buy them.
The figure enters the elevator and is then seen quickly leaving the mall, black cloth flapping behind it.
Someone dressed as an Emirati woman killed an American teacher in a mall bathroom.
The sudden pall of darkness in this strange house of mystery was just a tiny bit awesome.
The corpse was lying in a narrow coffin, upon a low bier, both of which were covered with a white pall.
Chains creaked, hinges groaned, and the great black pall above him began gradually to rise.
Next the artist changed to the string of pity, and thoughts of the worlds sorrows came over him like a pall.
Accustomed as he was to open appreciation by the sex, it never seemed to pall on him.