Associations to the word «Picardy»

Wiktionary

PICARDY, proper noun. A région of France.
PICARDY THIRD, noun. (music) a major third in the final tonic chord of a minor-key passage, a device mostly used in Baroque, although occasionally in Classical music, and then adopted much later on in neoclassicism.

Dictionary definition

PICARDY, noun. A region of northern France on the English Channel.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope