 | Thomas Wright - 1844 - 402 páginas
...was then the outmost, or skirt house of the Suburbs, that way. Others say it took name from this ; that one Higgins, a Tailor, who built it, got most...which in the last age were much worn in England." — lilounfs Glnsm,graphia, ed. 1656, first ed. " Pichadil, the Hem about the skirt of a Garment ;... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1844 - 790 páginas
...it was then tbe outmost, or skirt-bouse of the suburbs, tbat way. Others say it took name from this, that one Higgins, a tailor, who built it, got most...which, in the last age, were much worn in England." Such, in 1656, was Blount's interpretation of pickadil, and such his account of " the famous ordinary... | |
 | Percy Society - 1844 - 402 páginas
...was then the outmost, or skirt house of the Suburbs, that way. Others say it took name from this ; that one Higgins, a Tailor, who built it, got most...Pickadilles, which in the last age were much worn in England."—BluunCs Gloxsographia, ed. 1656, first ed. " Pickadil, the Hem about the skirt of a Garment;... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1844 - 428 páginas
...outmost, or skirt house of the Suburbs, that way. Others say it took name from this ; that one Higgint, a Tailor, who built it, got most of his estate by Pickadilles, which in the last age were much worn iu England." — bluutits Glaaoyraphia, ed. 1656, first c<l. " Pichadil, the Hem about the skirt of... | |
 | Percy Society - 1844 - 396 páginas
...was then the outmost, or skirt house of the Suburbs, that way. Others say it took name from this ; that one Higgins, a Tailor, who built it, got most of his estate by Pickadillcs, which in the last age were much worn in England." — lilaunfs Glossngraphia, ed. 1656,... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1846 - 640 páginas
...was then the outmost, or skirt, house of the suburbs that way. Others say it took its name from this: that one Higgins, a tailor, who built it, got most...which, in the last age, were much worn in England." Philips, in his World of Worlds, 169t5, says : " Pichardil is the hem about the skirt of a garment... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1846 - 638 páginas
...was then the outmost, or skirt, house of the suburbs that way. Others say it took its name from this: that one Higgins, a tailor, who built it, got most of his estate by pichadilles, which, in the last age, were much worn in England." Philips, in his World of Worlds, 1696,... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1852 - 502 páginas
...fashion of a band. That famous ordinary near St. James's called Pickadilly took denomination from this, that one Higgins a tailor, who built it, got most of his estate by piccadilles, which in the last age were much in fashion," Glossographia, ed. 1681, p. 495. Minsheu... | |
 | John Timbs - 1855 - 1026 páginas
...from its being the utmost or skirt house of the suburbs that way." Others say it took name from this: "that one Higgins, a tailor, who built it, got most of his estate by piccadillas." But the name occurs many years earlier than the mention of the first house, or Piccadilly... | |
 | 1857 - 330 páginas
...was then the outmost, or skirthouse of the suburbs that way. Others say it took name from this, — that one Higgins, a tailor, who built it, got most...which in the last age were much worn in England.' Minshew says a pickadill is a piece fastened about the top of the collar of a doublet. Ben Jonson refers... | |
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Pickadilly, took its denomination ; because it was then the outmost, or skirt, house of the suburbs that way. Others say it took its name from this : that one Higgins, a tailor, who built it, got most of his estate by pickadilles, which, in the last age,... 
