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02-23-2015, 01:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-23-2015, 01:34 PM by twiceblessed9.)
(02-23-2015, 12:57 PM)G0 Wrote:(02-23-2015, 12:51 PM)twiceblessed9 Wrote: While more of a dated term, I have heard shopping malls referred to as shopping arcades. For clarification I looked up arcade and found this definition:
1. A series of arches supported by columns, piers, or pillars, either freestanding or attached to a wall to form a gallery.
2. A series of arches employed for decorative purposes.
3. A roofed passageway or lane, especially one with shops on one or both sides.
Yep in europe they have been called shopping arcades since they existed, malls for us are cul-de-sac streets or just shopping streets. I didn't realize that you guys didn't also know they were called shopping arcades. still are by some. they have turned into shopping centers for young people but they were always arcades when i was growing up, I'm only 41 btw not 98 hehehe
That makes sense because my mind said Europe to me. Funny how the same word in English has different meaning. If you say Mall in D.C. it is the National Mall, the area between The Lincoln Memorial, The Washington Monument , The Capitol and every monument in-between.