How to pronounce“vamp”in English
nountransform some 100,000 square meters of Countryside into a park one that EV in
Vamp first began working on 30 years ago visitors will probably just walk by
lot of the sculptures and not even get round to visiting parts of the park the first time they come here but I think that these very subtle pieces of art
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Definitions of “vamp”
The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking.
“The flow of water was in my ears, and in my eyes a hazy spreading, and upon my brain a closure, as a cobbler sews a vamp up.”
Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.
To patch, repair, or refurbish.
“'Set me some great task, ye gods! and I will show my spirit.' 'Not so,' says the good Heaven; 'plod and plough, vamp your old coats and hats, weave a shoestring; great affairs and the best wine by and by.'”
Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
“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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