 With respect to the piccadil, or, as Jonson writes it, Picardil, (as if he supposed the fashion of wearing it to be derived from Picardy,) the term is simply a diminutive of picca (Span, and Ital.) a spear-head, and was given to this article of foppery,...  The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., Now ... - Página 283por Sir Thomas Overbury - 1856 - 311 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 474 páginas
...be de.ifed from Picardy,) the term is simply a diminutive of picca (Span, and lial.) a spear-head, and was given to this article of foppery, from a fancied...stiffened plaits to the bristled points of those weapons. Blount thinks, and apparently with justice, that Piccadilly took its name from the sale of the " small... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 472 páginas
...derived from Picardy,) the term is simply a diminutive of picca (Span, and Ital.) a. sprar-lii-ail, and was given to this article of foppery, from a fancied...stiffened plaits to the bristled points of those weapons. Blount thinks, and apparently with justice, that Piccadilly took its name from the sale of the " small... | |
 | 1829 - 298 páginas
...Picardllo or Piccadlls, a term which is, according to Gifford, simply a diminutive of plcca, a spearhead, and was given to this article of foppery, from a fancied...of its stiffened plaits to the bristled points of these weapons. Blount thinks, and perhaps with justice that the street "Piccadilly" in London, took... | |
 | Percy Society - 1844 - 396 páginas
...has a note on this ; — " Picardil is simply a diminutive of picca, (Span, and Ital.), a spear head, and was given to this article of foppery from a fancied...stiffened plaits to the bristled points of those weapons. Blount thinks, and apparently with justice, that Piccadilly took its name from the sale of the ' small... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1844 - 790 páginas
...words." " Picardil," says Gifford, " is simply a diminutive of picca (Span, and Ital.), a spear -head, and was given to this article of foppery from a fancied resemblance of its stiffened plaits to tbe bristled points of those weapons. Blount thinks, and apparently with justice, that Piccadilly took... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1845 - 516 páginas
...to be derived from Picardy), the term is simply a diminutive of picca (Span, and Ital.) a spearhead, and was given to this article of foppery, from a fancied...stiffened plaits to the bristled points of those weapons." Giflbrd's note on Jonson's Works, v. 55. — I have rejected, as quite unconnected with the text, what... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1846 - 638 páginas
...to Ben Jonson, says : " Picardil is simply a diminutive of picee (Span, and Ital.), a spear-head ; and was given to this article of foppery from a fancied...of its stiffened plaits to the bristled points of these weapons." Blount thinks, and apparently with justice, that Piccadilly took its name from " the... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1846 - 640 páginas
...notes to Ben Jonson, says: " Picardil is simply a diminutive of pica (Span, and Ital.), a spear-head ; and was given to this article of foppery from a fancied resemblance of its stiffened plaits to the bristiqd points of these weapons." Blount thinks, and apparently with justice, that Piccadilly took... | |
 | 1853 - 706 páginas
...in Ben Jonson, says : ' Picardil is simply a diminutive of picca (Span, and Ital,), a spear-head ; and was given to this article of foppery from a fancied...of its stiffened plaits to the bristled points of these weapons. Blount thinks, and apparently with justice, that Picadilly took its name from the sale... | |
 | Sir Thomas Overbury - 1856 - 418 páginas
...Glossographia, ed. 1656. Gifford says, " the term is simply a diminutive ofpicca (Span, and Ital.) a spear-head, and was given to this article of foppery, from a fancied resemblance of its stifiened plaits to the bristled points of those weapons." — Jonson's Works, v. 55. Page 85, line... | |
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