(亦作 shopping mall)a large enclosed shopping area from which traffic is excluded (禁止车辆入内的)商店区,室内购物中心
a sheltered walk or promenade (有遮蔽设施的)人行道;散步场所
(historical). another term for the gamepall-mall (史)。 同 pall-mall ■an alley used for this 铁圈球球场
语源
mid 17th cent. (in sense 3): probably a shortening of pall-mall. Sense 2 derives from The Mall, a tree-bordered walk in St James's Park, London, so named because it was the site of a pall-mall alley. Sense 1 dates from the 1960s