vamps

• charmers
• coquettes
• enchantress
• flirts
• jades
• kids
• razzes
• ribs
• seducers
• seductress
• seductresses
• sirens
• soubrettes
• teases
• temptress
• temptresses

• noun
  1. 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; the analogous part of a stocking.
  2. Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.
  3. Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
  4. A repeated and often improvised accompaniment, usually consisting of one or two measures, often a single chord or simple chord progression, repeated as necessary, for example, to accommodate dialogue or to anticipate the entrance of a soloist.
  5. (by extension) An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.
  6. A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her.
  7. A vampire.
  8. A volunteer firefighter.
• verb
  1. To patch, repair, or refurbish.
  2. Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
  3. To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
  4. (shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
  5. To travel by foot; to walk.
  6. To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
  7. verb

• The vamps of her shoes were decorated with intricate designs.
• He quickly replaced the worn-out vamps of his favorite boots.
• The leather vamps on the dance shoes allowed for smooth movements on the floor.
• She admired the beaded vamps on the traditional moccasins.
• The cobbler specialized in repairing and replacing vamps on all types of footwear.

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