Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of vamp
nounvamps pl (plural only)
- pluralplural onlyOld or refooted stockings.
When I go out, I wear two pairs of golf stockings, wool stockings and bed-shoes and a pair of vamps inside my skin boots, a sweater under my fur-lined coat, a knitted helmet under Father's sealskin cap, and a pair of wool mittens with skin mittens over them.
2001, Jessie Luther, Ronald Rompkey, Jessie Luther at the Grenfell Mission, page 99
verb
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of vamp
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