Lap

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.

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Famous quotes containing the word lap:

    “If a dog jumps into your lap it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing it is because your lap is warmer.”
    —Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)

    “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)

    “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)