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PALL MALL
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I. (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:
Before I left him I remembered what Jonathan put in his diary of the Professor's perturbation at reading something in an evening paper at the station at Exeter; so, seeing that Dr. Seward keeps his newspapers, I borrowed the files of "The Westminster Gazette" and "The Pall Mall Gazette," and took them to my room.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It was almost dark before we found ourselves in Pall Mall, at the rooms of Mr. Melas.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mycroft lodges in Pall Mall, and he walks round the corner into Whitehall every morning and back every evening.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I took a cab after that and reached my brother’s rooms in Pall Mall, where I spent the day.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Holmes showed me into a small chamber which looked out into Pall Mall, and then, leaving me for a minute, he came back with a companion whom I knew could only be his brother.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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