Piccadilly Definition

pikədilē
pronoun
The surrounding area.
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Piccadilly, a street running from Hyde Park Corner to Piccadilly Circus.

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noun

(obsolete) Piccadill.

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Other Word Forms of Piccadilly

Noun

Singular:
Piccadilly
Plural:
picadillies

Origin of Piccadilly

  • 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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  • attested from 1743; previously the area was called Portugal, and the street Portugal Street (1692), after Catherine of Braganza.

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Piccadilly Sentence Examples

  • The exhibition was held at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London.

  • John Aubrey, the antiquary, chronicles that the sisters of Sir John Suckling, the courtier-poet, once went to the bowling-green in Piccadilly, crying, "for fear he should lose all their portions."

  • Thus he was in some cases, as in that of St James's, Piccadilly, content to make the exterior of an almost barnlike plainness.

  • The southern highway enters Hammersmith, crosses the centre of Kensington as Kensington Road and High Street, borders Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park as Kensington Gore and Knightsbridge, with terraces of fine residences, and merges into Piccadilly.

  • St James's Park is continued between the Mall and Piccadilly by the Green Park.

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Words Starting With

PPIPIC

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