Meanings
plural piccadills · alternative picadill · alternative piccadell · alternative piccadil · alternative piccadilly · alternative pickadell · alternative pickadil · alternative pickadill · alternative pickadilly
- historicalA large, broad lace collar from the 17th century.
But he that some fortie or fifty yeares sithens should haue asked for a Pickadilly, I wonder who could haue vnderstood him, or could haue told what a Pickadilly had beene, either fish or flesh.
1614, Barnabee Rych, The Honestie of this Age: Proouing by Good Circumstance that the World was Neuer Honest Till Now, London: T.A., pages 37-8
Origin
- Spanishpicadillo
- Englishpiccadill
Possibly from Spanish picadillo, from picado (“punctured, pierced”); compare 17th century Spanish picadura (“a similar lace collar”).
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