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noun

Vamp n.

The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.

Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t.

(Music) A usually improvized Jazz accompaniment, consisting of simple chords in sucession.

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"Vamp" Quotes from Famous Books

... eager tide of the Fourteenth Street Emporium, thus released by the six-o'clock flood-gates, flowed past Miss Slayback. White-nosed, low-chested girls in short-vamp shoes and no-carat gold vanity-cases. Older men resigned that ambition could be flayed by a yard-stick; young men still impatient ...

— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst

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... appreciative eye. "The old boy believed in solid comfort. You wouldn't think to look at this that he'd spent years on a bronc's back buckin' blizzards. Some luxury, I'll say! Looks like one o' them palaces of the vamp ...

— Tangled Trails - A Western Detective Story • William MacLeod Raine

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... I'll vamp an accompaniment. It will be better than nothing," said Lady Mary kindly, and Will whispered low in my ear: "Don't be nervous. Do your best. Astonish them, Babs!" And I did. That whisper inspired me somehow, and I sang "The Vale of Avoca," ...

— The Heart of Una Sackville • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

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... at 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 more than ...

— A Christmas Garland • Max Beerbohm

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... as he takes the trombone] The trumpet in Zion! [Cusins rushes to the drum, which he takes up and puts on. Undershaft continues, aloud] I will do my best. I could vamp a bass if ...

— Major Barbara • George Bernard Shaw

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