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gamp

noun as in umbrella

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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.

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In earnest whereof Mrs. Parsley again thumped the floor with her "gamp."

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A "gamp" became a slang word for umbrella in the 19th century.

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Well, there it is as glaring and apparent as Borrow’s big green gamp or De Quincey’s insularity. 

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Hitting, then, is the weak point of the gamp.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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