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单词 piccadilly
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Piccadillyn.

Brit. /ˌpɪkəˈdɪli/, U.S. /ˈˌpɪkəˈˌdɪli/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Piccadilly.
Etymology: < Piccadilly, the name of a street and circus (see circus n. 7) in London (see note below). With Piccadilly collar n. at sense 1 compare earlier piccadill n. 1 (compare also β forms at that entry).On the origin of the place name compare:2001 A. D. Mills Dict. London Place-Names 176–7 It seems that the name first appears as Pickadilly Hall in 1623, otherwise Pickadel Hall in 1636, as a (no doubt humorous) nickname for a house belonging to one Robert Baker, a successful tailor who had made his fortune from the sale of piccadills or piccadillies..The name of the hall was then transferred to the district (as in Pickadillie 1627, Pickadilla 1633) and to the street (as in Piccadilly Street 1673, Pickadilly 1682).
1. Piccadilly collar n. a type of wide, elaborate collar. Cf. piccadill n. 1. Now chiefly historical.
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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).
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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.
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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).
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