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Vamp

verb

(past & past part. vamped; pres. part. vamping)

Make up. Synonym: vamp up.

Piece (something old) with a new part. Synonym: vamp up.

Act seductively with (someone).

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

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