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Piccadilly

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as piccadill.
  • noun A standing collar with the point turned over, worn in London about 1870.

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  • proper noun Piccadilly, a street running from Hyde Park Corner to Piccadilly Circus
  • proper noun the surrounding area

Etymologies

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From Pickadilly Hall, a house belonging to tailor Robert Baker, from piccadilly (a product in which he specialized), a form of piccadill ("a type of lace collar"), possibly from conjectured Spanish *picadillo, from picado ("punctured, pierced"); compare 17th century Spanish picadura ("a similar lace collar").

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Examples

  • She told me she had bought them in Piccadilly from a girl that was sitting round the fountain.

    Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences 1914

  • He lived in Piccadilly, then Portman Square, and from 1804 at Church Row,

    Index of People 2009

  • The spokesman, who stressed the trouble was caused by a small minority, said officers contained a group of up to 200 people in Piccadilly which they believed was making its way to the Israeli Embassy in Kensington High Street.

    More attacks on Jewish owned Starbucks in London Not a sheep 2009

  • Is this the same Ron Combo that once bought a burger at McDonald's in Piccadilly Circus, took one bite out of it and then hurled it across Shaftesbury Avenue?

    Glass in the Face Peter Ashley 2007

  • After lunch there's just time to wander into Waterstone's in Piccadilly and trawl around what's new and do my regular hygeine inspection of the facilities.

    42 entries from July 2007 2007

  • After lunch there's just time to wander into Waterstone's in Piccadilly and trawl around what's new and do my regular hygeine inspection of the facilities.

    A muggy-muggled London day 2007

  • After lunch there's just time to wander into Waterstone's in Piccadilly and trawl around what's new and do my regular hygeine inspection of the facilities.

    A muggy-muggled London day 2007

  • Media Watch: On TCM (from their web site) -- Anna May Wong (1905-1961) in Piccadilly (1929).

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006

  • He now even has a friend who works his new pitch in Piccadilly for him.

    The cycle of violence continues... amuchmoreexotic 2006

  • There was a dense brown fog in Piccadilly, and it became positively black and in the last degree oppressive East of Temple Bar.

    The Trial For Murder by Charles Dickens | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

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