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:
“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)
“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)