Stacey

Definitions

1. An English surname transferred from the given name derived from a medieval diminutive of Eustace.
2. A male given name from Ancient Greek transferred back from the surname.
3. A female given name from Ancient Greek popular in the 1970s, from the surname, sometimes also explained as a short form of Anastasia.

Examples

“It was just a brief kiss, one that even Bernadine would have⟳ thought entirely appropriate between an uncle and niece had she happened to see⟳ it. But its briefness wasn’t the whole story. In that scant second that his lips claimed hers, Stacey felt herself suffused with warmth as a most unniecely heat flooded her body.”

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