Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh glas ‘gray’, ‘green’,
‘blue’, probably denoting someone with silver-gray hair. Compare
Glass.English:
metonymic occupational name for a maker of cord and string, from
Middle English lace ‘cord’ (Old French laz, las).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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