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:
“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)
“Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)