vamped

This is perfectly true; much as Lnnrot botched and vamped the Finnish lays he made no epic out of them.

Surely we heard Lord A—— ask if that vamped old vase, which will fall some day to pieces, was antique; and B——assert that it was!

They “revived” Shakespeare; they vamped him in a style that did not wholly perish till after the time of Garrick.

The winning team was presented with a large, juicy apple pie, vamped from the mess sergeant by a Red Cross girl.

In spite of clear proof from the Hessian archives, these vamped-up stories are repeated and renewed.