Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vamper.
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Examples
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Or if a composer of sacred Dramas on classic models, or a translator of an old Latin author (that will hardly bear translation) or a vamper-up of vapid cantos and Odes set to music, were to turn pander to prescription and palliater of every dull, incorrigible abuse, it would not be much to be wondered at or even regretted.
The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits William Hazlitt 1804
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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;
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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