Pall Mall - это не только сигареты, в первую очередь это крокет!
Сигареты марки Pall Mall (Пэлл Мэлл) были представлены в 1899 году компанией Butler & Butler Company. Изначально они позиционировались как сигареты премиум класса. Свое название они получили в честь алеи Пэлл-Мэлл в Лондоне, а название улицы происходит от названия популярной игры XVII века - Pall Mall, напоминающий современный крокет, участники игры ударами деревянных молотков стремились попасть шарами в металлические обручи. Т.е. Пэлл-Мэлл является прародителем крокета.
Pall Mall - название происходит от итальянского pallamaglio, что буквально означает "мяч-молоток", а итальянское - в конечном счете, происходит от латинского palla и malleus означает "шар" и "молоток", соответственно.
Pall Mall
History
Related to Italian trucco (also known as lawn billiards or trucks in English) and similar games, paille-maille is an early modern development from jeu de mail, a French form of ground billiards.
The name comes from the Italian pallamaglio, which literally means "ball-mallet", ultimately derived from Latin palla and malleus meaning "ball" and "maul, hammer or mallet", respectively.[citation needed] An alternative etymology has been suggested, from Middle French pale-mail or "straw-mallet", in reference to target hoops being made of bound straw.
History of Pall Mall in England
In 1661 Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary, "To St. James's Park, where I saw the Duke of York playing at Pelemele, the first time that I ever saw the sport". In his book entitled "The sports and pastimes of the people of England" Joseph Strutt describes the way Pall Mall was played in England in 1611: "'Pale-maille is a game wherein a round box ball is struck with a mallet through a high arch of iron, which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed upon, wins.' It is to be observed, that there are two of these arches, that is 'one at either end of the alley.' The game of mall was a fashionable amusement in the reign of Charles the Second, and the walk in Saint James's Park, now called the Mall, received its name from having been appropriated to the purpose of playing at mall, where Charles himself and his courtiers frequently exercised themselves in the practice of this pastime."
Whilst the name Pall Mall and various games bearing this name may have been played elsewhere (France and Italy) the description above suggests that the croquet games were certainly popular in England as early as 1601. Some early sources refer to Pall Mall being played over a large distance (as in golf), however an image in Joseph Strutt's 1801 book The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England clearly shows a croquet-like game (balls on ground, hoop, bats and peg) being played over a short (garden sized) distance. Interestingly this image describes the game as 'A very curious ancient pastime' and indeed a Saxon origin for this game has been suggested.
The game was still known in the early nineteenth century, as is proved by its reference in many English dictionaries. In Samuel Johnson's 1828 dictionary his definition of "Pall mall" clearly describes a game with similarities to modern croquet: "A play in which the ball is struck with a mallet through an iron ring".