Crossword-Solution: PICCA
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Pike, in Pisa | 1 answer |
| Spear: Italian. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or
grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous
silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular
variety.
Hint 2 anagram
LCAT
Hint 3 another clue
BABY DOCTOR FOR SHORT
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Sentences with PICCA (4)
The most fashionable street of all, _Piccadilly_, probably got its name from the very fashionable collar called a _pickadil_ (from the Spanish word _picca_, "a spear") which the fine gentlemen wore as they swaggered through the West End in the early seventeenth century.
Gifford, in a note on another passage in Ben Jonson, says: '_Picardil_ is simply a diminutive of _picca_ (Span.
The _Hingwalka Chhota saral_, or small alpine fir, so strongly resembles the common fir of the south of Europe, (_Pinus picca_, W.) that I can perceive no difference in the foliage; but I have not seen the cones.
Sicca e pinu et picca; liquida e terebintho, larice, lentisco, cupresso.” The Resina sicca pini is the _Pix arida_ of the Old London Pharmacopœia, or the _Pix Abietina_ of the New.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1954–1980).