Talk:Piccadilly

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My source for the origin of the name is Do not pass go, ISBN 0-224-06263-8 -- Tarquin 13:17, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I just had a quick look around. It appears to be almost correct.

from www.dictionary.com

\Pic"ca*dil\, Piccadilly \Pic`ca*dil"ly\, n. [OF. piccagilles the several divisions of pieces fastened together about the brim of the collar of a doublet, a dim. fr. Sp. picado, p. p. of picar to prick. See Pike.] A high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century.

From http://www.quinion.com/words/weirdwords/ww-pic1.htm

An applied shape on the edge of clothing, especially a collar.

A tailor named Robert Baker, who had a shop in the Strand in London around the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth. He generated a large fortune from making and selling picadils, much of which he spent buying up a large tract of what was then open country to the west of London. Around 1612 he built a country house there. This was nicknamed Piccadilly Hall, either from the source of the tailor’s wealth, or because it was at the edge of his property, as the picadils were at the edge of items of clothing.

See: http://www.gipsypeddler.com/rapier1.htm for PICADIL JERKIN

See: http://members.aol.com/peldyn/picadil.html for examples of picadils

See: http://www.krysstal.com/piccline.html for Piccadilly Hall.

See: http://www.8savilerow.com/hist_sr.html

No mention of it being a metal support though.

Mintguy 15:12, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)

The "call girl" story seems to be a hoax, unless you can dig out a source for it; I have never heard the word "Dilly" as a synonym for prostitute, and this area was never well known for prostitution, having gone straight from open fields to large houses — iridescent (talk to me!) 20:43, 1 September 2007 (UTC)