low-vamp

Updated: June 30, 2026

Then there is something more of a difficult and painful nature on the piano; and nearly always, too, there is a large lady wearing a low-vamp gown on a high-arch form, who in flute-like notes renders one of those French ballads that's full of la-las and is supposed to be devilish and naughty because nobody can understand it.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - Cobb's Bill-of-Fare