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Vamp   /væmp/   Listen
Vamp

noun
1.
A seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men.  Synonyms: coquette, flirt, minx, prickteaser, tease, vamper.
2.
An improvised musical accompaniment.
3.
Piece of leather forming the front part of the upper of a shoe.
verb
(past & past part. vamped; pres. part. vamping)
1.
Make up.  Synonym: vamp up.
2.
Piece (something old) with a new part.  Synonym: vamp up.
3.
Act seductively with (someone).
4.
Provide (a shoe) with a new vamp.  Synonym: revamp.



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"Vamp" Quotes from Famous Books



... down the Ring, the Archduke paused And gave the soldiers speech, enkindling them As sunrise a confronting throng of panes That glaze a many-windowed east facade: Hot volunteers vamp in from vill and plain— More than we ...
— The Dynasts - An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, - Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes • Thomas Hardy
... with, that I make desperate attempts to 'vamp up' a moral in my story. Now, I must candidly confess that I do not know what 'vamping' is. I see, from time to time, mysterious advertisements in the newspapers about 'How to Vamp,' but what vamping really means remains a mystery to me—a mystery that, like all ...
— Miscellanies • Oscar Wilde
... he can vamp them all, and it will be too delightful to have something from each of my women stars," Constance urged. "Now I'll leave you two to arrange it, and in a few minutes I'll get every one back from the dining room," she nodded, ...
— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
... idea of murder had not entered my head at that time, the slipper gave me a turn. I picked it up and looked at it—a black one with a beaded toe, short in the vamp and high-heeled, the sort most actresses wear. Then I went back and knocked at the door of ...
— The Case of Jennie Brice • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... Elsinore. This is the best our Shakespeare can vamp up for the birthday of the Man with whom he of all men had the most in common. And Dryasdust, eternally unable to distinguish chalk from cheese, throws up his hands in admiration of the marvellous poetry. If Dryasdust had written it, it would ...
— A Christmas Garland • Max Beerbohm


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