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Luxurious place to live a dog's life? (3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lap

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'dog's life?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how one could define the other.

'luxurious place to live a' is the wordplay.
'luxurious place' becomes 'p' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'live' becomes 'l' (electrical abbreviation).
'l'+'a'='la'
'p' after 'la' is 'LAP'.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for lap that I've seen before include "A circuit of a racecourse" , "place for small computer?" , "Track circuit; drink" , "One complete circuit" , "Stage - circuit" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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