[f. VAMP v.1] Anything vamped, patched up, or refurbished; a patchwork; a book of this nature.

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1884.  J. F. Hodgetts, Older England, ii. 61–2. This name was no vamp or hybrid mixture of Latin and English.

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1897.  Academy, 6 March, 274/1. Such vamps as the one I have analysed from Mr. Henley’s notes can only be credited to him as brilliant luck brilliantly used.

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  b.  A vamped or improvised accompaniment.

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1882.  in Imp. Dict., IV. 539.

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