a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer
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the language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula
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Lapps \Lapps\, n. pl.; sing. {Lapp}. (Ethnol.) A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia.
Lapp \Lapp\ (l[a^]p), n. Same as {Laplander}. Cf. {Lapps}.
Laplander \Lap"land*er\, n. A native or inhabitant of Lapland; -- called also {Lapp}.
Lapp Lee, an analyst for Salomon Brothers Inc., said he had been slightly skeptical of the statement attributed to Allen anyway because of the possibility Allen was misquoted or had been speaking of a goal rather than a forecast.
Eventually he falls into the hands of the Tsjudes, who force him to lead them to the Lapp community on the coast.
Smoker Zook and Emanuel Lapp say their family farms of 100 acres apiece would be split down the middle by proposed routes, eliminating 20% of their croplands.
Mr. Gaup, whose English is fluent, is distressed that the traditional ways are disappearing and that the Lapp language is dying.
The Lapp culture is one of the last left with direct ties to ancient ways of thinking." The rumor mill has New York and Cleveland as the finalists for the 1992 Democratic National Convention, but party officials insist nothing is set.
Adds Mr. Lapp, "I'm afraid we would have to move away."