gamp

Example Sentences

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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 Mansfield, Katherine

A man in a slouch hat, carrying a gamp as untidy as himself, was walking before them down the middle of the road.

From Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs by Ollivant, Alfred

Ac ni wnaeth y dysgedig Mr. Edward Llwyd o’r Musæum, gamp yn y byd yn y perwyl yma, er ei fod yn gydnabyddus â holl geinciau prifiaith Prydain. 

From Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evans, Evan

From Dickens's famous character Mrs. Gamp in "Martin Chuzzlewit," who always carried a bulgy umbrella, we get the word gamp, rather a vulgar name for "umbrella."

From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)

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 Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)