Piccadilly
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See also piccadilly
[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
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”).
Piccadilly attested from 1743; previously the area was called Portugal, and the street Portugal Street (1692), after Catherine of Braganza.
[edit] Proper noun
Piccadilly
- Picadilly street, a street running from Hyde Park Corner to Piccadilly Circus
- the surrounding area
