Piccadilly

Meaning

Proper Noun

• Piccadilly, a street running from Hyde Park Corner to Piccadilly Circus
• the surrounding area
• The Piccadilly Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway.

Origin

• From Pickadilly Hall, a house belonging to a tailor who specialized in a type of lace collar called a piccadill, possibly from conjectured Spanish *picadillo, from picado; compare 17th century Spanish picadura.
• Piccadilly attested from 1743; previously the area was called Portugal, and the street Portugal Street (1692), after Catherine of Braganza.