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pickadilly

pickadilly 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 pickadilly

pluralpickadillies

Questions about pickadilly

What is pickadilly the alternative form of?
Pickadilly is the alternative form of piccadill.

Words near pickadilly in the dictionary

  1. pickadells
  2. pickadil
  3. pickadill
  4. pickadillies
  5. pickadills
  6. pickadilly
  7. pickadils
  8. pickage
  9. pickages
  10. pickaninnie
  11. pickaninnies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pickadilly (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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