lacey

name

1. A Norman habitational surname from Old French from a place Lassy in Calvados.
2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname.

   “"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."”

3. A unisex given name transferred from the surname.

   “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.”

4. A placename
5. A placename

adj

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of lacy.

   “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?”

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

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