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No. 3                  Piccadille

Piccadill in French Piccadille  a Peice fastened about the top of the Collar of a Doublet   Minshau

Pickadil  Randle Holm  Book 3  Ch 2  p 11,  he beareth a [indecipherable] a neck Whisk (gorget)  Rounded & Laced which Standeth round the NeckTouching no Part of the Shoulder, but is Supported by a Pickadil which was a Stiff Collar made in the Fashion of a Band, which Kind of wear was much in use & Fashion in the Last age by our English Gallants both men & women as the monuments of that time doth farther manifest; for it is Credibly Reported that that Famous Place near St James's Calld The Piccadill to its denomination from this That one Higgins a Taylor who built it Got most of his Estate by Piccadillies 
after Enumerating the Different Parts of a Doublet he has a Pacadile a thing put about a man or womans Neck to Support or bear up the Band or Gorget  ch 3 p 95 - p 15.
Carte a Supporter or Piccadile made of Pasteboard Coverd with Linnen  Cotgrave

 

Piccadilly  a gtreat Street near St. James built by one Higgins a Taylor & so Calld because he got his Estate by making Stiff Collars in the Fashion of a Band, then Calld Piccadilles  Baileys Dictionary  Printed 1753
Piccadil  The hem about the Skirt of a Garment; Whence the Great Ordinary at St Jameses is so Called  English Expositor  4th Edition Cambridge 1667 12 no
Piccadill from the Duch word Pickedillekens   Lacinia qua vistis Lacerata  
The Flemish Dictionary Explains it Petit bord
The German word is Pickedill  Italian orlo rotando   Spanish  orilla Rotanda
Portugese  Borda Redonda  from the French bord  Latin  ora Rotundae   ora from its Situation on the Collar of the Garment  Rotunda from its Shape 
it is also worn about the knees - Knee band ?

Piccadilles  Picadilles  The Several division sor Peices fastend together about the Brimme of the Collar of a Doublet &c  Cotgrove [Sceols u Carte?]

 

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