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gamp

[gamp]
–noun British Informal.
an umbrella.

Origin:
1860–65; after the umbrella of Mrs. Sarah Gamp in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit
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gamp   (gāmp)   
n.   Chiefly British
A large baggy umbrella.

[After the umbrella of Mrs. Sarah Gamp, a character in the novel Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens.]
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