单词 | piccadilly |
释义 | Piccadillyn. 1. Piccadilly collar n. a type of wide, elaborate collar. Cf. piccadill n. 1. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > collar > types of > other rabat1578 falling band1581 rebato1589 fall1598 piccadill1607 golilla1673 collarettea1685 banda1700 turn-over1716 Vandyke1755 falling-down collar1758 falling collar1770 fall-down?1796 yoke collar1817 rabatine1821 dicky1830 dog collar1852 Piccadilly collar1853 all-rounder1854 all round1855 turnover collara1861 Quaker collar1869 Eton collar1875 Toby collar1885 Eton1887 sailor collar1895 roll-neck1898 Shakespeare collar1907 polo collar1909 white-collar1910 tab collar1928 Peter Pan collar1948 tie-neck1968 1853 Times 20 Dec. (advt.) 1/4 Caution.—The Piccadilly collar—Country drapers, hosiers, &c. are hereby cautioned against purchasing a collar bearing the above name, and registered by me on the 10th day of May 1851. 1879 B. Harte Twins of Table Mountain (1888) 207 His Piccadilly collar..reached—a mass of lace—to a point midway of his breast. 1909 Trenton (New Jersey) Evening Times 17 Apr. 20/6 The shops show embroidered Piccadilly collars for women. 1932 D. Powell Tenth Moon 67 Decker had gone, malacca stick in hand, brave in Piccadilly collar topping badly fitting suit, to Neville's or Marshall's for dinner. 2002 Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (Nexis) 1 Sept. (Local section) b1 He must have looked dapper in his black tux and Piccadilly collar as she passed him on the way into the theater. 2. British colloquial. Piccadilly weeper n. a long side whisker worn without a beard, popular in the mid to late 19th cent. (usually in plural; cf. weeper n. 4). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > styles of whiskers side wing1811 mutton chop1851 Dundreary whiskers1859 mutton cutlet1860 Piccadilly weeper1866 burnside1875 Dundrearies1876 sideburn1876 sidebar whiskers1882 sideboards1883 weeper1894 slugger1898 ear guards1905 1866 All Year Round 16 June 551/1 Stroking his long whiskers, popularly known as ‘Piccadilly weepers’. 1894 C. G. Harper Revolted Woman ii. 39 This fashion was the ‘Piccadilly-weeper’ variety of adornment, known at this day—chiefly owing to Sothern's impersonation of a contemporary lisping fop—as the ‘Dundreary’. 1907 Outing 50 279 Such various patterns of ornamental whiskers as the ‘Piccadilly Weeper’ (No. 2), the ‘Burnside’, etc. 1973 J. Fleming You won't let me Finish ii. 19 A fragile moustache that drooped right down past his mouth, the kind of moustache that used to be called a ‘Piccadilly weeper’. 1998 Scotsman (Nexis) 24 July 17 His Piccadilly weepers are the result of an inability to understand the nature of a proper shave of a morning. 3. British colloquial (disused). Piccadilly window n. a monocle. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > eye-glass or monocle eyeglass1593 glass eye1721 quizzing glass1800 quizzer1806 ogling-glass1843 monocle1873 monoculus1892 window1896 Piccadilly window1897 windowpane1923 1897 E. Graham Golden Dustman (song) Nah I'm goin' to be a reg'lar toff... A Piccadilly winder in my eye. 1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 195/2 Piccadilly window (street, '90's), single eye-glass worn by some men of fashion—hence the Piccadilly. 1936 P. M. Clark Autobiogr. Old Drifter xiii. 177 ‘It’ was a regular Ha-ha Johnnie with a ‘Piccadilly window’ in his eye. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1853 |
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