Lacey
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Lacey
- A Norman habitational surname from Old French from a place Lassy in Calvados.
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname
- 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."
- 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.
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly 19th century usage.
- A placename
- A township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.
- A city in Thurston County, Washington, United States, formerly named Woodland.