vampletn.
south-western dialect.
A gaiter. Usually in plural.
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1842 J. Y. Akerman Gloss. Provinc. Words Wilts. Vamplets, rude gaiters to defend the legs from wet.
1863 J. R. Wise New Forest 162 His legs are still cased..with gaiters, known as ‘vamplets’, or ‘strogs’.
1866 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell xlix She wore a pair of poor Clayton's vamplets.
1875 R. D. Blackmore Alice Lorraine II. xvi. 208 Instead of white stockings, he displayed gold-buttoned vamplets of orange velvet.
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