| 释义 |
‖ laplap, lap-lap, n.2|ˈlæplæp|
[Local word.]
In New Guinea, a loin-cloth.
1930M. Mead Growing up in New Guinea xi. 191 A gorgeous new laplap proclaims his special state. 1957O. Ruhen in B. James Austral. Short Stories (1963) 197 They were not bush natives, because all three wore cloth lap⁓laps. 1967‘E. Lindall’ Time too Soon i. 3 A couple of policemen, militarily smart in their new uniforms... Earlier they had worn dark blue laplaps. 1973Sunday Times (Colour Suppl.) 10 June 51/3 When Michael Somare walked through the bar of a Bougainville motel..he heard himself described as a ‘bush kanaka in a lap-lap’. |