Piccadilly
See also: piccadilly
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editEtymology
editFrom Pickadilly Hall, a house belonging to a tailor 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 from 1743; previously the area was called Portugal, and the street Portugal Street (1692), after Catherine of Braganza.
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editPiccadilly
- Piccadilly, a street running from Hyde Park Corner to Piccadilly Circus.
- 1881, 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.
- 1912, Henry James Williams, It's a Long Way To Tipperary:
- Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square -
It's a long, long way to Tipperary
But my heart's right there.
- The surrounding area.
- (rail transport) Manchester Piccadilly station, the main railway station in Manchester.
- (rail transport) The Piccadilly Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway.
- 2024 March 6, Stefanie Foster, “The changing face of the Piccadilly...”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 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:
- A suburb of Swinton, Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4598). [1]
- A village in Kingsbury parish, North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire, England, named after Piccadilly in London (OS grid ref SP2298).
- A hamlet in Beechingstoke parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0959). [2]
- A small town in Adelaide Hills council area, South Australia.
- A suburb of Kalgoorlie, City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia.
- A community of Central Frontenac, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada.
- A community of Piccadilly Slant-Abraham's Cove, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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