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a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Little French Lawyer iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. K3^v/1 Rise then, and get you gone and let me heare of you As of an Advocate new vampt.

1640 J. D. (title) The knave in graine new vampt: a witty comedy.

1650 Man in Moon 6–13 Mar. 368 To new-vampe a freez-school, and to stitch into them single-soul principles.

1666 Let. 24 July in Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 293 The grand Fault of his Demonstration..wherewith he would now New-vamp his old False quadrature; lyes in those words.

1702 Eng. Theophrastus 16 A Play, writ by an ancient celebrated author, new-vampt and furbish'd up.

1735 C. Coffey Merry Cobler vi. 17 There can be no Comparison With the generous Cobler..Who new-vamps the Nation, has his politick Eye On every Man's Steps.

1787 G. Colman Prose Several Occasions III. 239 Let us new-vamp the Box, new-lay the Stage.

1817 W. Hazlitt Polit. Ess. (1818) 308 Such is the old doctrine of Divine Right new-vamped up under the style and title of Legitimacy.

1836 C. Lamb Wife's Trial 243 Some toilet service—to adjust her head, Or help to stick a pin in the right place—..Or new vamp up The tarnish'd cloak she came in.

1844 J. F. Cooper Afloat & Ashore IV. xiii. 170 The only changes made were for the better; the occasion having been improved, to paint and new-vamp the house.

1879 Appletons' Jrnl. Oct. 308/2 This house, though ‘new vamped’, as our fathers would have said, is as interesting as the church itself.