piccadill

noun

1. A large, broad lace collar from the 17th century.

   historical

   But he that some fortie or fifty yeares sithens should haue asked for a Pickadilly, I wonder who could haue vnderstood him, or could haue told what a Pickadilly had beene, either fish or flesh.

Where it comes from

Possibly from Spanish picadillo, from picado (“punctured, pierced”); compare 17th century Spanish picadura (“a similar lace collar”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry piccadill (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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