Lap

Lap

A lap is a surface created between the knee and hips of a bipedal being when it is in a seated or lying down position.

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Famous quotes containing the word lap:

    “The plum my mother picked matured slowly,
    The boy she dropped from darkness at her side
    Into the sided lap of light grew strong....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “The seasons alter; hoary-headed frosts
    Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
    And on old Hiems’ thin and icy crown
    An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
    Is, as in mockery, set.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I like to see it lap the Miles—
    And lick the Valleys up—”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)