Noun

(en noun)

A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.

(Addison)

A heavy blow.

(Spenser)

An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See pall mall.

(Cotton)

A place where the game of mall was played.

A public walk; a level shaded walk.

* Southey

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 .

(US, Australia) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.

pedestrian mall

* 2002 , Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn?t , page 179,

America?s first pedestrianized shopping mall' opened in 1959 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Like most later pedestrian ' malls , it was intended to revive what everybody thought was a decaying downtown.

An enclosed shopping centre.

* 2004 , Ralph E. Warner, Get a Life: You Don?t Need a Million to Retire Well , unnumbered page,

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 .

* 2010 , Greg Holden, Starting an Online Business For Dummies , unnumbered page,

In addition to Web site kits, ISPs, and businesses that specialize in Web hosting, online shopping malls provide another form of Web hosting.

Noun

(galleries)

An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art.

An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.

Uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.

A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side

as a whole, the spectators of an event.

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