Lexicographical Neighbors of Pickadil
Literary usage of Pickadil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt (1885)
"They were frequently of enormous size; Drayton says of a lady:— " la everything
she must be monstrous: Her pickadil above her crown appears. ..."
2. Words, Facts, and Phrases: A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, & Out-of-the-way by Eliezer Edwards (1882)
"... but there is greater probability that the street was so named from an article
of dress called a ' pickadil," which word is thus defined in an old ..."
3. Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Until the by Frederick William Fairholt (1860)
"... Dray ton says of a lady:— " In everything she must be monstrous: Her pickadil
... For he that wears no pickadil, by law may wear a ruff. ..."
4. A Book about London: The Streets of London. An Alphabetical Index to the by William Henry Davenport Adams (1890)
"... in humble imitation of my predecessors I proceed to quote:—" A pickadil is
that round hem, or the several divisions set together about the skirt of a ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"'pickadil, the round hem, or the several divisions set together about the skirt
of a garment, or other thing, also a kind of stiff collar, made in fashion ..."
6. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The derivation commonly accepted for Piccadilly is from pickadil, a stiff cellar
or hem in fashion in (he early part of the i7th century (Span, picea, ..."
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