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mall



Pronunciation: (môl; Brit. also mal), [key]
—n.
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. Cf. shopping center.
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.

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