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piccadil

piccadil 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 piccadil

pluralpiccadils

Questions about piccadil

What is piccadil the alternative form of?
Piccadil is the alternative form of piccadill.

Words near piccadil in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: piccadil (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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