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piccadell

piccadell is the alternative form of piccadill.

Meaning of piccadill

Noun

piccadill (plural piccadills)

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

Forms of piccadell

pluralpiccadells

Questions about piccadell

What is piccadell the alternative form of?
Piccadell is the alternative form of piccadill.

Words near piccadell in the dictionary

  1. picayunish
  2. picayunishness
  3. Picazo
  4. Picazos
  5. PICC
  6. piccadell
  7. piccadells
  8. piccadil
  9. piccadill
  10. piccadillies
  11. piccadillo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: piccadell (page history and authors); piccadill (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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