Dictionary Definition
lacy adj
1 made of or resembling lace; "a lacy gown"; "a
lacy leaf" [syn: lacelike]
2 having open interstices or resembling a web
[syn: netlike, netted, webbed, weblike, webby] [also: laciest, lacier]
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English
Adjective
- Made of lace or
decorated with it.
- lacy lingerie
- Looking like lace.
Translations
made of lace or decorated with it
- Finnish: pitsinen
looking like lace
- Finnish: pitsimäinen
Extensive Definition
Lacy may refer to any of the following:
People
- Alan J. Lacy, U.S. businessman
- Benjamin W. Lacy (1839—1895), U.S. lawyer
- Bill Lacy, U.S. political operative and business executive
- Bill N. Lacy, U.S. architect
- Bo Lacy (born 1980), U.S. football player
- Danny Lacy, Australian curator
- David Lacy, Scottish theologian
- Ed Lacy (1911—1968), U.S. mystery writer
- Elizabeth B. Lacy (born 1945), U.S. lawyer
- Franz Moritz von Lacy (1725—1801), Austrian field marshal
- Harriette Deborah Lacy (1807—1874), English actress
- Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln (1251—1311)
- Hugh de Lacy (1020—1049), Norman nobleman
- Hugh De Lacy (1910—1986), U.S. politician
- Jeff Lacy (born 1977), U.S. boxer
- Jennifer Lacy (born 1983), U.S. basketball player
- Jerry Lacy (born 1936), U.S. soap opera actor
- Kerry Lacy is a former relief pitcher
- Lee Lacy (born 1948), U.S. baseball player
- John Len Lacy (1900-1998), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
- Michael Rophino Lacy (1795—1867), Irish musician
- Onawa Lacy (born 1982), U.S. beauty queen
- Paul Eston Lacy (1924—2005), U.S. pathologist
- Peter von Lacy (1678—1751), Russian commander
- Philippe De Lacy (1917—1995), silent film era child actor
- Preston Lacy (born 1969), U.S. actor
- Roger de Lacy (died after 1106), Norman nobleman
- Scott Fitzgerald Lacy (born 1966), U.S. photographer
- Sterling Byrd Lacy, U.S. politician
- Steve Lacy (1934—2004), U.S. jazz saxophonist
- Suzanne Lacy (born 1945), U,S, artist
- Tania Lacy (born 1965), Australian comedian
- Thomas Hailes Lacy (1809—1873) British actor, playwright, theatrical manager, bookseller, and theatrical publisher
- Venus Lacy (born 1967), U.S. basketball player
- William Lacy (died 1582), English martyr
- William H. Lacy (born 1945), U.S. businessman
See also
- de Lacy, an old Norman noble family
- Lacy Baronets
- Lacy Barnes-Mileham, an American discus thrower
- Lacey
lacy in German: Lacy
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
airy,
attenuate, attenuated, barred, boyish, cancellated, crossbarred, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, ethereal, filigreed, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, frail, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile, grated, gridded, insubstantial, laced, lacelike, latticelike, light, meshed, meshy, misty, mullioned, netlike, netted, netty, papery, plexiform, rare, rarefied, reticular, reticulate, reticulated, retiform, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, streaked, striped, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set,
thin-spun, thinnish,
threadlike, vague, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy