| 单词 | Piccadilly |
| 释义 | Piccadilly|pɪkəˈdɪlɪ|
The name of a street and circus (sense 7) in London (see note s.v. piccadill, pickadill), used attrib. in Piccadilly weeper(s), long drooping side whiskers, sometimes extending below the chin, worn without a beard; loosely = Dundreary whiskers s.v. Dundreary; Piccadilly window (slang), a monocle.
1874Hotten Slang Dict. 252 Piccadilly weepers, long carefully combed-out whiskers of the Dundreary fashion. 1894Piccadilly weeper [see Dundreary]. 1897E. Graham Golden Dustman (song), Nah I'm goin' to be a reg'lar toff... A Piccadilly winder in my eye. 1907[see Burnside, burnside]. 1909J. R. Ware Passing Eng. 195/2 Piccadilly window (street, '90's), single eye-glass worn by some men of fashion—hence the Piccadilly. 1936P. M. Clark Autobiogr. Old Drifter xiii. 177 ‘It’ was a regular Ha-ha Johnnie with a ‘Piccadilly window’ in his eye. 1960C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 163/1 Piccadilly weepers. 1870's and 1880's. (M.) Long combed-out whiskers fashionable in those decades. 1973J. Fleming You won't let me Finish ii. 19 A fragile moustache that drooped right down past his mouth, the kind of moustache that used to be called a ‘Piccadilly weeper’. |
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