Lacey

See also: lacey

English

Alternative forms

• Lacy, Laci, Lacie

Proper noun

Lacey

1. A Norman habitational surname from Old French from a place Lassy in Calvados.
2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname
   1. A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly 19th century usage.
      • 1993, Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven, →ISBN, page 322:

        "Where'd you get a prissy name like Lacey from, anyway?"
        "I don't know," Cash tells Alice, keeping his hands on the wheel and his eye trained ahead. "It was Alma thought of it. I think she liked the TV show with the lady cops. Lacey and somebody."

   2. A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
      • 2009, Marilynne Robinson, Gilead: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

        Lacey Thrush died last night. Isn't that a name? Her mother was a Lacey. They were an old family here, but she was the last of the Laceys, and the Thrushes went on to California.

3. A placename
   1. A township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.
   2. A city in Thurston County, Washington, United States, formerly named Woodland.

See also

• De Lacey
• Lacey Green

Anagrams

• Caley, alecy, claye