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pickadell

pickadell 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 pickadell

pluralpickadells

Questions about pickadell

What is pickadell the alternative form of?
Pickadell is the alternative form of piccadill.

Words near pickadell in the dictionary

  1. pickabacked
  2. pickabacking
  3. pickabacks
  4. pickability
  5. pickable
  6. pickadell
  7. pickadells
  8. pickadil
  9. pickadill
  10. pickadillies
  11. pickadills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pickadell (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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