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High Mall
High Mall n. now historical the time of day when the throng of promenaders in the Mall in London (mall n.1 2) is at its height; also in extended use.
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society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [noun] > day or season of > at specific time of day
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1712 Spectator No. 437. ⁋4 Were you to see Gatty walk the Park at high Mall.
1792 R. Bage Man as he Is II. xlvi. 174 There is no thinking well in the streets of Westminster; but the park, when it is not high mall, affords tolerable opportunity.
a1845 R. H. Barham Wedding-day in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. iii. i. 33 I have seen him walking at high Mall.
1889 C. Teesdale in Duke of Beaufort et al. Driving (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) xviii. 342 At High Mall on the Newski there are always certain equipages to be seen that attract the greatest amount of admiration and criticism.
1991 J. Garreau Edge City i. 4 Back then, its denizens even had a name for the hour when the throng of promenaders ‘giggling with their sparks’ was at its height. They called it High Mall.
2004 Eng. Lit. Hist. 71 127 The Frenchified Sir Fopling, who, with his train of Gallic-sounding servants, attracts everyone's attention in the social theater of High Mall.
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