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  1. noun The upper part of a boot or shoe covering the instep and sometimes extending over the toe.
  2. noun Something patched up or refurbished.
  3. noun Something rehashed, as a book based on old material.
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  • I nodded cautiously, not convinced that a vamp was the best person to clean off blood, especially one who had looked pretty hungry earlier. —  Chance, Karen - Touch the Dark
  • Not that a human falling for a vamp is anything new, since it even happens in Bram Stoker's —  Film School Rejects
  • Repeat 6th and 7th rows until you have 25 ribs, or the vamp is as deep as desired. —  Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet
  • Drummer Joe Morello's outro solo on the vamp is a masterpiece of understatement that illustrates the shadings of the time signature rather than pounding it into the ground. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • What caught my eye was a slight splitting of the leather in that part of the upper known as the vamp, a splitting at the point where the two laced parts of the shoe rise from the upper. —  The Woman in Black
 

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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English vampe, sock, from Old French avanpie : avaunt, before; see vanguard + pie, foot (from Latin pēs; see ped- in Indo-European roots).
  2. Short for vampire.

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  1. from Middle English vampe, vaumpe, *vampay, vampies (also wampe, wampay), earlier vampett, vaumpet (in plural vaumpez), vauntpe, from Old French vantpie, aphetic form of avant-pied, French avant-pied, the forepart of the foot, from avant, before, + pied, foot: see van and foot.
  2. Middle English vampayen; from vamp, n.
  3. Origin obscure.
 

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