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Lap-lap
A lap-lap is a waistcloth or loincloth worn in Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific. This item of clothing has three parts: a front flap, a back flap, and a thread to tie them around the waist. The sides are generally open. How much is covered by the front and back flaps varies.
Related to the lap-lap is the lava-lava, which is an all-round rectangular cloth worn like a kilt or skirt by Polynesians.
Category:Melanesian clothing Category:Skirts
Usage examples of "lap-lap".
Flocks of herring gulls lazily rose and settled again at the girl's approach, and the air was full of their mewing and of the endless lap-lap of the small waves.
Once more he sat in the dark, damp basement with the powdery rot around him, listening to the tidal water lap-lapping everywhere.