See vamp on Wiktionary
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"text": "'Yes, I am rather cracked in the vamp,' he said freely, seeing that the eyes of the shepherd's wife fell upon his boots, 'and I am not well fitted either. I have had rough times lately, and have been forced to pick up what I can get in the way of wearing, but I must find a suit better fit for working days when I reach home.'",
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"ref": "1976, Chaim Grade, translated by Curt Leviant, The Yeshiva, Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill Company, →ISBN, page 164:",
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"ref": "2005, Steve Swayne, “Pulling It Apart”, in How Sondheim Found His Sound, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 116:",
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"ref": "2012, Simon Reynolds, “’Ardcore, You Know the Score”, in Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Berkeley, Calif.: Soft Skull Press, →ISBN, page 119:",
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"ref": "1711 [December?] (date written), Jonathan Swift, “An Excellent New Song. Being the Intended Speech of a Famous Orator against Peace [i.e., Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham].”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume VII, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 72:",
"text": "He has vamp'd an old speech, and the court to their sorrow, / Shall hear him harangue against Prior to morrow.",
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"ref": "1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Vincent Crummles, and Positively His Last Appearance on the Stage”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 478:",
"text": "For instance, you take the uncompleted books of living authors, fresh from their hands, wet from the press, cut, hack, and carve them to the powers and capacities of your actors, and the capability of your theatres, finish unfinished works, hastily and crudely vamp up ideas not yet worked out by their original projector, but which have doubtless cost him many thoughtful days and sleepless nights; […]",
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"ref": "1911 May 20, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Flying Stars”, in The Innocence of Father Brown, London, New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Company, published 1911, →OCLC, page 112:",
"text": "With real though rude art, the harlequin danced slowly backwards out of the door into the garden, which was full of moonlight and stillness. The vamped dress of silver paper and paste, which had been too glaring in the footlights, looked more and more magical and silvery as it danced away under a brilliant moon.",
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"ref": "1728, [Alexander Pope], “Book the First”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC, page 13, lines 228–230:",
"text": "A paſt, vamp'd, future, old, reviv'd, nevv piece, / 'Tvvixt Plautus, Fletcher, Congreve, and Corneille, / Can make a C——r, Jo——n, or O——ll.",
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"ref": "a. 1746, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, “A Vindication of the Libel: Or, A New Ballad, Written by a Shoe-boy, on an Attorney who was Formerly a Shoe-boy”, in The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, […], volumes XLIV (Containing Swift and Broome), London: Printed by T. Spilsbury and Son; for J[ames] Buckland, […], published 1790, →OCLC, page 76:",
"text": "Two pence he had gotten by begging, that 's all; / One bought him a bruſh, and one a black ball; / […] / Thus vamp'd and accoutred, with clouts, ball, and bruſh, / He gallantly ventur'd his fortune to puſh; […]",
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"ref": "1844, [Charles MacFarlane], “Lord Hereward Goes to Get His Own”, in The Camp of Refuge. In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Charles Knight & Co., Ludgate Street, →OCLC, page 120:",
"text": "[S]ome men, nay, even some monks and brothers of this very house, are so envious of my state and foes to my peace of mind, that whenever they see me more happy and fuller of hope than common, they vamp me up some story or conjure some spectrum to disquiet me and sadden me!",
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"extemporize",
"extemporize"
],
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"improvise",
"improvise"
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],
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"transitive"
]
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"ref": "1880, [George] Bernard Shaw, chapter I, in The Irrational Knot … Being the Second Novel of His Nonage, London: Archibald Constable & Co., published 1905, →OCLC, page 14:",
"text": "\"It is so unkind to joke about it,\" said the beautiful young lady. \"What shall I do? If somebody will vamp an accompaniment, I can get on very well without any music. But if I try to play for myself I shall break down.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 4, in The Subtle Minotaur, London: John Gifford […], →OCLC, →OL, page 52:",
"text": "The band played ceaselessly. Even when the other instruments were resting the pianist kept up his monotonous vamping, with a dreary furbelow for embellishment here and there, to which some few of the dancers continued to shuffle round the floor.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1994, Donald Clarke, “The War Years”, in Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN; republished as Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon, Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2002, →ISBN, page 206:",
"text": "[W]hen she [Billie Holiday] finally emerged from her dressing room, she would take her time getting to the stage, stopping and greeting people and even having drinks at the bar while her accompanists vamped.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"improvise",
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[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"perform",
"perform"
],
[
"vamp",
"vamp#English"
],
[
"repeated",
"repeated#Adjective"
],
[
"improvised",
"improvised#Adjective"
],
[
"accompaniment",
"accompaniment"
],
[
"dialogue",
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],
[
"waiting",
"wait#Verb"
],
[
"soloist",
"soloist"
],
[
"ready",
"ready"
]
],
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"specifically",
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"ref": "1899, [Charles B. Hatfield], “Cloth Quarters and Welt Shoes”, in Designing, Cutting and Grading Boot and Shoe Patterns: And Complete Manual for the Stitching Room. […], Boston, Mass.: Press of Superintendent and Foreman, →OCLC, page 56:",
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}
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[
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[
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"attach"
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[
"vamp",
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[
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]
},
{
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{
"ref": "1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter I, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), page 12:",
"text": "Well, vamp on to Marlott, will 'ee, and order that carriage, and maybe I'll drive round and inspect the club.",
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}
],
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[
"travel",
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],
[
"foot",
"foot#Noun"
],
[
"walk",
"walk#Verb"
]
],
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"ambitransitive",
"dialectal"
]
},
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"source": "w"
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{
"ref": "2017, Jake Arnott, The Fatal Tree:",
"text": "'I'll find my own fencing cove or else vamp it to a pawnbroker.'",
"type": "quote"
}
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"pawn",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:vamp",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:vamp",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:vamp",
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{
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:vamp",
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"ref": "1919 June, Renee Van Dyke, “Interesting Paragraphs about the Players”, in Geo[rge] M. Downs, Jr., editor, The Photo-play World, volume 2, number 8, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Downs Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 59, column 3:",
"text": "It is the vamp who has a sense of humor that can really hold a man. She laughs at him, even as she is seeking to allure him—and he adores it.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “The Connoisseur of Kisses”, in The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book 1, page 95:",
"text": "She was got up to the best of her ability as a siren, more popularly a \"vamp\"—a picker up and thrower away of men, an unscrupulous and fundamentally unmoved toyer with affections.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1927 September, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Actor and the Alibi”, in The Secret of Father Brown, London, Toronto, Ont.: Cassell and Company, →OCLC, page 148:",
"text": "\"Lady Miriam?\" said Jarvis in surprise. \"Oh, yes. … I suppose you mean that she looks a queer sort of vamp. But you've no notion what even the ladies of the best families are looking like nowadays.[…]\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1936, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Vampire of the Village”, in The Penguin Complete Father Brown, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, London: Penguin Books, published 1985, →OCLC, page 707:",
"text": "Well, her seclusion is considered suspicious. She annoys them by being good-looking and even what is called good style. And all the young men are warned against her as a vamp.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2021 January 2, Katie Hind, “Grease is 'racist, rapey, homophobic and slut-shaming' and should never be shown on TV again, say woke snowflakes”, in The Daily Mail:",
"text": "[…]strait-laced Sandy, played by Olivia Newton-John, transformed herself into a vamp to bag the man of her dreams",
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}
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"feminine"
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],
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},
{
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
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"word": "მაცდური ქალი"
},
{
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"sense": "seductive woman",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
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"word": "vamp"
},
{
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"sense": "seductive woman",
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},
{
"_dis1": "90 10",
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{
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"sense": "seductive woman",
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},
{
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"sense": "seductive woman",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "90 10",
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},
{
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},
{
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"sense": "seductive woman",
"word": "vamp"
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"_dis1": "90 10",
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{
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{
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{
"_dis1": "90 10",
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"text": "Two pence he had gotten by begging, that 's all; / One bought him a bruſh, and one a black ball; / […] / Thus vamp'd and accoutred, with clouts, ball, and bruſh, / He gallantly ventur'd his fortune to puſh; […]",
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