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.

Famous quotes containing the word lap:

“Beatrice. Will you go hear this news, signor?
Benedick. I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap and be buried in thy eyes; and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown,
Fair Science frown’d not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy mark’d him for her own.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

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

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