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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Pik(k)a-, Pic(k)adail(l, -dill, -dell, n. Also: picke-, pikai-; pecka-. [17th c. Eng. pic(k)adell (1607), -dil(l, picardill, also picka-, piccadilly, peccadillo, etc. a border of vandyking, esp. on a collar or ruff, a decorative collar, a support for a collar, F. pica-, piccadille (a 1589 in Godef.) ‘the seuerall diuisions or peeces fastened together about the brimme of the collar of a doublet’ (Cotgrave, 1611). Cf. Pikkindail(l n.] A piccadill or collar, prob. of the style fashionable in England in the early 17th c. 1606 Tailor's Acc. Bk. 52.
Ane quarter of quhyte bukkasie to … mak the pikaidaill 1611 Mar & Kellie MSS. 67.
Pickadill 1613 Dunferm. B. Rec. II. 113.
Pikadaill 1614 Laing MSS. I. 138.
Item ane quhyt saten picadell withe tu leffit bandis of the newest fasone 1615 Edinb. Test. XLVIII. 284 b.
Picadailis 1616 Stirling B. Rec. I. 144.
Pickedaillis 1618 Edinb. Test. L. 133.
Pickadaillis 1624 Ib. LII. 156 b.
Ane dosone of calleco peckadailles