piccadill

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Etymology

Possibly from Spanish picadillo, from picado (“punctured, pierced”); compare 17th century Spanish picadura (“a similar lace collar”).

Noun

piccadill (plural piccadills)

  1. (historical) A large, broad lace collar from the 17th century.
    • 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:
      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.

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