Definition of "vamper" []

• One who vamps; one who creates or repairs by piecing old things together; a cobbler. (noun)
• To swagger; to make an ostentatious show. (verb)

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• "[Illustration: A DELICATE TYPE OF BEAUTY -- At work in a Lynn shoe factory] [Illustration: ONE OF THE SWELLS OF THE FACTORY: A very expert "vamper," an Irish girl, earning from $10 to $14 a week]"
• "One of the swells of the factory: a very expert "vamper," an Irish girl, earning from $10 to $14 a week, 172"
• "Here, the clothesman, the shoe – vamper, and the rag – merchant, display their goods, as sign – boards to the petty thief; here, stores of old iron and bones, and heaps of mildewy fragments of woollen – stuff and linen, rust and rot in the grimy cellars."