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)
“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)
“She look’d 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 here—and dance, and sing, and say his prayers, and go to heaven with this nut brown maid?”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)