piccadilly · name — piccadilly, a street running from Hyde Park Corner to Piccadilly Circus.
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piccadilly is pronounced /pɪkəˈdɪli/.
Etymology
From Pickadilly Hall, a house belonging to a tailor, Robert Baker, 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 as the London street name from 1695^(see quote); previously the main portion of the street (west of Sackville Street) was called Portugal Street (1692), after Catherine of Braganza. Piccadilly attested of the location from 1663^(see quote), Peccadillo a.1641, Pecadilly Hall a.1640ⁱᵇⁱᵈ, Pickadilly Hall 1623. All other uses appear to be derived from the London location or street name.
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- Piccadilly, a street running from Hyde Park Corner to Piccadilly Circus.e.g.“The Inn that I speak of is about the Middle of Piccadilly upon the left hand.” — 1695, “The Tryals of Robert Charnock, Edward King, and Thomas Keyes, at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily”, in A Compleat Collection of State-Tryals, and Proceedings Upon Impeachments for High Treas
- The surrounding area.e.g.“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.” — 1663 August 1, "A. S." (probably Sir Kenelm Digby), chapter V, in Miracles Not Ceas'd, London, sourced from British Library, via Google Books, page 22:
- Manchester Piccadilly station, the main railway station in Manchester.
- The Piccadilly Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway.
- A number of places elsewhere:; A suburb of Swinton, Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4598).
- A number of places elsewhere:; A village in Kingsbury parish, North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire, England, named after Piccadilly in London (OS grid ref SP2298).
- A number of places elsewhere:; A hamlet in Beechingstoke parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0959).
- A number of places elsewhere:; A small town in Adelaide Hills council area, South Australia.
- A number of places elsewhere:; A suburb of Kalgoorlie, City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia.
- A number of places elsewhere:; A community in Central Frontenac, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada.
- A number of places elsewhere:; A community in Piccadilly Slant-Abraham's Cove, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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