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- noun Plural form of
lapping .
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Examples
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Continually these lappings were interrupted by the snarling of the guard.
Chapter 5 2010
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Having noticed the intermittent lappings from a nearby stream, they mean to tickle for their tea, a couple of nice rainbows. ndm
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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Such over-lappings may have come down even to our earlier centuries.
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There were only the tiniest sounds: lappings and creakings and, even. the soft puffs of her breath as she rhythmically worked the pole into the thick muck of the rio bottom.
The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983
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And so, taking her back to bed, she "bathed her brow" with gentle lappings until Lady Betty sank off to quiet sleep, soothed and comforted.
Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow
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Before him stretched the river; so near was it that he could hear the musical lappings of its waters among the tall grasses that bordered the stream.
Ted and the Telephone Sara Ware Bassett 1920
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Continually these lappings were interrupted by the snarling of the guard.
Chapter 5 1915
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Even as I write, I seem to hear the ceaseless roars of those horrible creatures, and the weird but gentle lappings of the limitless waste that extended as far as the eye could reach.
Adventures of Louis de Rougemont Fitzgerald, F Scott 1899
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He went on milking in a sort of happy dream, while the children got a cap and ladled the warm milk out into the pie-dishes and plates, and platters and saucers, and set them down to the music of Persian purrs and lappings.
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Nature has ever written, sleeping out-of-doors under the trees and the glowing stars after being lulled to rest by the soothing lappings of the gentle waves upon the beach -- who can conceive a more ideal vacation-time than this.
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