A gamp is a large umbrella.
Gamp é um guarda-chuva grande.
| Front | gamp \gamp\ |
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| Back | noun A large umbrella. [After Sarah Gamp, a nurse in Charles Dickens's novel Martin Chuzzlewit. She carries a large umbrella. Earliest documented use: 1864.] "By the time we fumble with our windcheaters and gamps, the air is dry once again." Narayani Ganesh; City of Derry in Northern Ireland; The Economic Times (New Delhi, India); Dec 31, 2010. |
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