PALL MALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pall Mall mean? 

• PALL MALL (noun)
  The noun PALL MALL has 1 sense:

1. a fashionable street in London noted for its many private clubs

  Familiarity information: PALL MALL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALL MALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fashionable street in London noted for its many private clubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

street (a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings)

Holonyms ("Pall Mall" is a part of...):

British capital; capital of the United Kingdom; Greater London; London (the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center)

 Context examples 

We had reached Pall Mall as we talked, and were walking down it from the St. James’s end.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We are coming into Pall Mall now, and this great building on the left is Carlton House, the Prince’s Palace.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In a stationer's shop in Pall Mall, where I had business.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

In a dense phalanx, blocking the streets from side to side, the crowd set forth, taking the route of Regent Street, Pall Mall, St. James's Street, and Piccadilly.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I think our next scene of operations must be the shipping office of the Adelaide-Southampton line, which stands at the end of Pall Mall, if I remember right.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His Pall Mall lodgings, the Diogenes Club, Whitehall—that is his cycle.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After many inquiries and almost as many refusals, and perpetually using the words Pall Mall Gazette as a sort of talisman, I managed to find the keeper of the section of the Zoölogical Gardens in which the wolf department is included.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was a quarter-past seven when we left Pall Mall, and my watch showed me that it was ten minutes to nine when we at last came to a standstill.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Edward talks of going to Oxford soon, said she; but now he is lodging at No. —, Pall Mall.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The local house agent could tell me nothing about Charlington Hall, and referred me to a well-known firm in Pall Mall.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)