malls

Noun

mall (countable and uncountable, plural malls)

1. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
   • The preliminary plans provide for one million square feet of selling space in three main buildings and a double row of shops along a central shopping mall.1950 August 15, Philip Hampson, “Field's Plans 15 to 20 Million Shopping Center for Skokie”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, page 1
2. An enclosed shopping centre.
   • Every day, at about the time the rest of us go to work, groups of retirees gather at many of America′s enclosed shopping malls.2004, Ralph E. Warner, Get a Life: You Don′t Need a Million to Retire Well, unnumbered page
3. (obsolete) An alley where the game of pall mall was played.
4. A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.
   • Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall.1820, Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley; and Rise and Progress of Methodism
5. A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.
   • I also fell slightly; but his fall proving a severe one, he arose in wrath, and struck me with the mall which he held in his hand, until my blood flowed copiously […]1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
6. (obsolete) The game of polo.

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