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Alma Bennett was an American actress. She was born in 1889 and died in 1958. She played various vamp roles in the silent films.
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Originally, a Derby was a type of lace-up ankle boot sporting boot having no stiffening and a very low heel, the toe and quarters being oberlaid and stitched onto the vamp. The term is now applied to a low heeled shoe.
Derby is the American name for a Bowler hat.
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Vamp is slang for a seductress.
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Vamp up is British slang for to intensify, to make more effective.
Vamp up is British slang for to improvise.
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