FromPickadilly Hall, a house belonging to a tailor who specialized in a type of lace collar called apiccadill, possibly from conjecturedSpanish *picadillo, frompicado(“punctured, pierced”); compare 17th century Spanishpicadura(“a similar lace collar”).
Though the Philistines may jostle, you will rank as an apostle in the high aesthetic band - If you walk downPiccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your mediaeval hand.
2024 March 6, Stefanie Foster, “The changing face of thePiccadilly...”, inRAIL, number1004, page52:
WhyPiccadilly? The Piccadilly Line was originally the Great Northern,Piccadilly & Brompton Railway (GNP&BR) which was shortened toPiccadilly in practice. Running under the main road between Piccadilly Circus and Hyde Park Corner,Piccadilly made sense and was also the most well-known location in the original company name.
