gamp
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gamp
1860–65; after the umbrella of Mrs. Sarah Gamp in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit
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Now when I go, I take my husband's "storm" gamp and sit in a corner, hiding behind it.
From In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield
Ach! it vos so pad I haf to get oudt right avay, und come pack to der gamp.
From Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day by Alan Douglas
Under the Old Umbrella, Beneath the leaking gamp, Wrapped up in woolly phrases We battle with the damp.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 8, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman
Molly had put on her shabbiest hat and oldest jacket; her gloves had some holes in them; her umbrella was rolled up in such a thick, ungainly fashion that it looked like a gamp.
From Light O' the Morning by L. T. Meade
It was quite a good disguise; and a pair of black cotton gloves, two sizes too large, and a sort of lumpy gamp umbrella helped to suggest the character I had in my mind.
From The Man Without a Memory by Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) Marchmont
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