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View Name: Lucasta


LUCASTA
GENDER: Feminine
USAGE: Literature
Meaning & History
This name was first used by the poet Richard Lovelace for a collection of poems called 'Lucasta' (1649). The poems were dedicated to Lucasta, a nickname for the woman he loved Lucy Sacheverel, who he called lux casta "pure light".
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