Meanings
comparative more lacily · superlative most lacily
- In a lacy manner.
[…] all are so daintily, lacily minute that they seem to have been woven by spiders, not carved by men; and yet all, like the leafy designs in relief which surround them, are cut with the freest, most spirited touch.
1893, Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Handbook of English Cathedrals: Canterbury, Peterborough, Durham, Salisbury, Lichfield, Lincoln, Ely, Wells, Winchester, Gloucester, York, London
Origin
Cite this entry
lacily. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lacily
“lacily.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lacily. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lacily,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lacily.
Source: lacily on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.