Tracy (ACE station)
WordNet
noun
(1) United States film actor who appeared in many films with Katharine Hepburn (1900-1967)
WiktionaryText
Etymology
A Norman baronial surname from places in France, derived from a Gallo-Roman given name Thracius, referring to Thrace. As a female given name it is also a diminutive of Theresa.
Proper noun
- , occasional transferred use of the surname since the nineteenth century.
- popular in the 1960s and 1970s.
Quotations
- 1921 P.G.Wodehouse: Indiscretions of Archie. page 162:
- "What's the first name?" - - -
- "I have a horrible feeling that it's Lancelot!"
- "Good God!" said Archie.
- "It couldn't really be that, could it?"
- Archie looked grave. He hated to to give pain, but he felt he must be honest.
- "It might," he said. "People give their children all sorts of rummy names. My second name's Tracy. And I have a pal in England who was christened Cuthbert De la Hay Horace. Fortunately everyone calls him Stinker."
- 1985 Ed McBain: Snow White and Rose Red: page 130:
- "That's her real name, you know. I mean, a lot of girls working the topless joints, they take exotic, sexy names...well, Tiffany Carter, for example...but that was the name Tracy was born with."