Definition of "Lacey"

Lacey

proper noun
1. A Norman habitational surname from Old French from a place Lassy in Calvados.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly 19th century usage.
3. A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
  Quotations
  "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, page 322
  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
4. A township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.
5. A city in Thurston County, Washington, United States, formerly named Woodland.