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单词 gamp umbrella
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Gamp umbrella
2. Chiefly British colloquial. Frequently with lower-case initial. An umbrella, esp. one tied up in a loose, untidy fashion. Also more fully Gamp umbrella. Now somewhat archaic.
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1855 Notes & Queries 25 Aug. 137/2 The dropsical, parturient gingham of former days,..embalmed in the inimitable conception of Dickens, may be affectionately remembered by posterity as a ‘Gamp’, just as such a primitive, cumbrous instrument has been styled for a century in France ‘un Robinson’.
1861 H. M. G. Smythies Daily Governess I. vii. 58 The great discrepancy between the old plaid cloak, shabby bonnet, and ‘Gamp’ umbrella, and the taste and richness of the toilet beneath.
1883 G. R. Sims Lifeboat 85 He donned his goloshes and shouldered his gamp.
1918 G. M. Baillie Reynolds Lonely Stronghold i. 9 ‘What weather!’ muttered Miss Hand... ‘With my usual luck, came without a gamp this morning,’ grumbled Miss Turner.
1993 L. Fairbanks Sister Carrie viii. 126 Rains this time every day. Need a gamp.
2003 J. Clayton Charles Dickens in Cyberspace Introd. 4 He took pleasure in noting the spinoff products from his imagination, such as the Little Nell Cigar and the Gamp Umbrella.
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