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pickadil

pickadil 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 pickadil

pluralpickadils

Questions about pickadil

What is pickadil the alternative form of?
Pickadil is the alternative form of piccadill.

Words near pickadil in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pickadil (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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