| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - It seems that the name first appears as Pickadilly Hall in 1623, otherwise Pickadel Hall in 1636, as a (no doubt humorous) nickname for a house belonging to one Robert Baker, a successful tailor who had made his fortune from the sale of piccadills or piccadillies, a term used for various kinds of collars, highly fashionable at the time, for both men and women.
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