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:
“Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;”
—William Wordsworth (17701850)
“She lookd amiable!Why could I not live and end my days thus? Just disposer of our joys and sorrows, cried I, why could not a man sit down in the lap of content hereand dance, and sing, and say his prayers, and go to heaven with this nut brown maid?”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“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 (15641616)
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