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Lacy vs Lacey - What's the difference?

lacy | lacey |

Lacey is a alternative form of lacy.



As adjectives the difference between lacy and lacey

is that lacy is made of lace or decorated with it while lacey is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As proper nouns the difference between lacy and lacey

is that lacy is {{surname|from=Old French}}, a spelling variant of Lacey while Lacey is {{surname|Norman habitational|from=Old French}} from a place Lassy in Calvados.

lacy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Made of lace or decorated with it.
    • lacy lingerie
  • Looking like lace.

    • Anagrams

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    lacey

    English

    Alternative forms

    *Lacy

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • from a place Lassy in Calvados.
  • , transferred from the surname, mostly in the nineteenth century.
  • of modern usage.

    • Quotations

    * 1993 , 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."