Piccadilly

piccadilly English <dab!> Etymology From Pickadilly Hall, a house belonging to a tailor, Robert Baker, who specialized in a type of lace collar called a en piccadill, possibly from conjectured en es - *picadillo, from es picado punctured, pierced; compare 17th century Spanish es picadura a similar lace collar. Piccadilly attested as the London street name from 1695see quote; previously the main portion of the street (west of Sackville Street) was called en Portugal Street (1692), after Catherine of Braganza. Piccadilly attested of the location from 1663see quote, Peccadillo a.1641,en Barnabee Rych, extensive notes added by unknown editor The Honestie of this Age: Proouing by Good Circumstance that the World was Neuer Honest Till Now London p.1826 1614 Note 3 76 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Honestie_of_this_Age/QZZTAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Peccadillo&pg=PA76 Pecadilly Hall a.1640ibid, Pickadilly Hall 1623.en History:17th and 18th Century History Savile Row Bespoke™ https://www.savilerowbespoke.com/about-us/history/17th-18th-century/ Savile Row Bespoke Association 2025-03-02 2025-08-13 All other uses appear to be derived from the London location or street name. Pronunciation en /pɪkəˈdɪli/ UK en En-us-Piccadilly.oga Audio (US) Proper noun Piccadilly, a street running from Hyde Park Corner to Piccadilly Circus. en A Compleat Collection of State-Tryals, and Proceedings Upon Impeachments for High Treason and other Crimes and Misdemeanours from the Reign of King Henry the Fourth to the End of the Reign of Queen Anne the Fourth Volume (published 1719) London Published by Authority 1695 The Tryals of Robert Charnock, Edward King, and Thomas Keyes, at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily Google Books 19 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/A_Compleat_Collection_of_State_tryals_an/Qd5BAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Piccadilly&pg=PA19 The Inn that I speak of is about the Middle of Piccadilly upon the left hand. en 1881 w: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. en 1912 Henry James Williams w:It's a Long Way To Tipperary Goodbye Piccadilly,Farewell Leicester Square -It's a long, long way to TipperaryBut my heart's right there. The surrounding area. en "A. S." (probably Sir Kenelm Digby) V Miracles Not Ceas'd London 1663 Aug 01 22 British Library Google Books https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Miracles_Not_Ceas_d/Oi8s0azeEDUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Piccadilly&pg=PA22 Valentine Dawes, a Quaker, living in Aier-street in the Piccadilly, being for many years troubled with the Falling-Sickness, was perfectly cured; and thereupon presently became a Roman Catholick. en rail Manchester Piccadilly station, the main railway station in Manchester. en rail The Piccadilly Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway. en 2024 March 6 Stefanie Foster The changing face of the Piccadilly... RAIL 1004 52 Why Piccadilly? The Piccadilly Line was originally the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway (GNP&BR) which was shortened to Piccadilly in practice. Running under the main road between Piccadilly Circus and Hyde Park Corner, Piccadilly made sense and was also the most well-known location in the original company name. A number of places elsewhere: en suburb town/Swinton metbor/Rotherham co/South Yorkshire cc/England OS grid ref SK4598. OS: Rotherham en village par/Kingsbury dist/North Warwickshire co/Warwickshire cc/England, named after Piccadilly in London OS grid ref SP2298. en hamlet par/Beechingstoke co/Wiltshire cc/England OS grid ref SU0959. OS: Wiltshire en small town council area:suf/Adelaide Hills s/South Australia. en suburb town/Kalgoorlie city:Pref/Kalgoorlie-Boulder s/Western Australia. en community twp/Central Frontenac co/Frontenac County p/Ontario c/Canada. en community x/Piccadilly Slant-Abraham's Cove isl/Newfoundland p/Newfoundland and Labrador c/Canada. Derived terms en Piccadilly Circus References en London Named roads