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 (1770–1850)
“Far from the sun and summer-gale
In thy green lap was Nature’s Darling laid,
What time, where lucid Avon stray’d,
To him the mighty mother did unveil
Her awful face:”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
“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)