Piccadilly
See also: piccadilly
English
Etymology
From Pickadilly Hall, a house belonging to a tailor who specialized in a type of lace collar called a piccadill, 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.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Piccadilly
- Piccadilly, a street running from Hyde Park Corner to Piccadilly Circus
- 1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience, act 1:
- Though the Philistines may jostle, you will rank as an apostle in the high aesthetic band -
If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your mediaeval hand.
- Though the Philistines may jostle, you will rank as an apostle in the high aesthetic band -
- 1912, Henry James Williams, It's a Long Way To Tipperary:
- Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square -
It's a long, long way to Tipperary
But my heart's right there.
- Goodbye Piccadilly,
- 1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience, act 1:
- the surrounding area
- The Piccadilly Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway.