Lucasta

Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature

Meaning

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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