Piccadilly
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Etymology
From Pickadilly Hall, a house belonging to tailor Robert Baker, from (a product in which he specialized), a form of , possibly from conjectured *picadillo, from ; compare 17th century Spanish .
Piccadilly attested from 1743; previously the area was called , and the street (1692), after Catherine of Braganza.
Proper noun
- Picadilly street, a street running from Hyde Park Corner to Piccadilly Circus
- the surrounding area