Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗The part of hose or stockings which covers the foot and ankle; a sock or short stocking. · The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper. · Something added to give an old thing a new appearance. · Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
To patch, repair, or refurbish. · Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing. · To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise. · To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
From Middle English vaumpe, vaum-pei, vampe (“covering for the foot, perhaps a slipper or understocking; upper of a boot or shoe”), or from Anglo-Norman vampe, *vaumpé (“part of a stocking covering the top of the foot”), from Old French avantpied, avantpiet, variants of avantpié, from avant (“in front”) + pié (“foot”). Noun senses 2 and 3 (“a patch; something patched up or improvised”) appear to have been extended from sense 1 (“top part of a boot or shoe”). Sense 4 (“repeated and often improvised musical accompaniment”) was probably derived from sense 3, and sense 5 (“activity to fill or stall for time”) from sense 4. The verb senses were derived from the noun. Compare also Middle English vaum-peien (“(uncertain) to repair (footwear) with a new upper or vamp; to fabricate an upper or vamp”).
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- Inherited-form mentionvaumpeenm
- Derivation mentionavantpiedfro
- Cognate mentionvaum-peienenm
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