lacey

comparative lacier · superlative laciest

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of lacy.

   She was dressed in a lacey gown, a size too large for her.

   1914, Virginia Brooks, Little Lost Sister

   2 more examples

   Skirts of white muslin, with pretty frills and lacey trimmings that fall in soft folds and ruffles around one's feet, are mighty dainty things for the summer girl--but is there a colder sound than that of a starched white petticoat in the dead of winter?

   1901, Helen Follett Stevans, The Woman Beautiful

   Michael Brown’s stainless-steel simulation of a cracked mirror freezes an act of anarchy into a lovely, lacey web.

   2008 July 11, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times

alternative Lacy · alternative Laci · alternative Lacie

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.

      "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."

      1993, Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven, →ISBN, page 322

   2. A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.

      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.

      2009, Marilynne Robinson, Gilead: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Hachette UK, →ISBN

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