Verb (used with object) : He vamped up a few ugly rumors to discredit his enemies. From Dictionary.com.
Here, the clothesman, the shoe – vamper, and the rag – merchant, display their goods, as sign – boards to the petty thief; here, stores of old iron and bones, and heaps of mildewy fragments of woollen – stuff and linen, rust and rot in the grimy cellars. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Twist] Reference
A vamper I was not, but if any help was wanted there was hope. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls] Reference
Here, the clothesman, the shoe-vamper, and the rag-merchant, display their goods, as sign-boards to the petty thief; here, stores of old iron and bones, and heaps of mildewy fragments of woollen-stuff and linen, rust and rot in the grimy cellars. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Twist] Reference
Becket, or any creditable bookseller, who was either leaving off business, and wanted a post-chaise — or who was beginning it — and wanted my remarks, and two or three guineas along with them — I could have borne it — but to a chaise-vamper! — shew me to him this moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
France, which were as full of wit, as an egg is full of meat, and as well worth four hundred guineas, as the said egg is worth a penny — have I been selling here to a chaise-vamper — for four Louis d’Ors — and giving him a post-chaise (by heaven) worth six into the bargain; had it been to Dodsley, or. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
The wife of the chaise-vamper stepp’d in, I told you, to take the papilliotes from off her hair — the toilet stands still for no man — so she jerk’d off her cap, to begin with them as she open’d the door, in doing which, one of them fell upon the ground — I instantly saw it was my own writing —. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
When the first transport was over, and the registers of the brain were beginning to get a little out of the confusion into which this jumble of cross accidents had cast them — it then presently occurr’d to me, that I had left my remarks in the pocket of the chaise — and that in selling my chaise, I had sold my remarks along with it, to the chaise-vamper. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
Skilfulest vamper-up of old rotten leather, to make it look like new; always a rising man; he used to tell Mercier, "You will see. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
He's a vamper. From Wordnik.com. [The Rick Sanchez Meltdown And Journalism Ethics] Reference
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