mall

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mall /mal, mɔːl, mɒl/

▶noun

• 1 a large enclosed shopping area from which traffic is excluded.

• 2 a sheltered walk or promenade.

• 3 historical another term for pall-mall.

  ■ a pall-mall alley.

– origin C17 (in sense 3): prob. a shortening of pall-mall; sense 2 from The Mall, a walk in St James's Park, London, former site of a pall-mall alley.