Piccadilly

Meanings

1. Piccadilly, a street running from Hyde Park Corner to Piccadilly Circus.
2. The surrounding area.
3. Manchester Piccadilly station, the main railway station in Manchester.
4. The Piccadilly Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway.
5. A number of places elsewhere:
6. A suburb of Swinton, Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4598).
7. A village in Kingsbury parish, North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire, England, named after Piccadilly in London (OS grid ref SP2298).
8. A hamlet in Beechingstoke parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0959).
9. A small town in Adelaide Hills council area, South Australia.
10. A suburb of Kalgoorlie, City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia.
11. A community in Central Frontenac, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada.
12. A community in Piccadilly Slant-Abraham's Cove, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

1. piccadill

Etymology

From Pickadilly Hall, a house belonging to a tailor, Robert Baker, who specialized in a type of lace collar called a piccadill, possibly from conjectured Spanish *picadillo, from picado (“punctured, pierced”); compare 17th century Spanish picadura (“a similar lace collar”). Piccadilly attested as the London street name from 1695^(see quote); previously the main portion of the street (west of Sackville Street) was called Portugal Street (1692), after Catherine of Braganza. Piccadilly attested of the location from 1663^(see quote), Peccadillo a.1641, Pecadilly Hall a.1640ⁱᵇⁱᵈ, Pickadilly Hall 1623. All other uses appear to be derived from the London location or street name.