English

Alternative forms

• Lacy

Proper noun

Lacey

1. A Norman habitational surname​ from a place Lassy in Calvados.
2. A male given name, transferred from the surname, mostly in the nineteenth century.
3. A female given name of modern usage.

Quotations

• 1993 Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven, ISBN 0060922532, 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."

English

Adjective

lacey ‎(comparative lacier, superlative laciest)

1. Alternative spelling of lacy
   • 1901, Helen Follett Stevans, The Woman Beautiful:

     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?

   • 1914, Virginia Brooks, Little Lost Sister:

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

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

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