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Workhouse nurses, real or supposititious. (See Gamp.)
“Mr. Gathorne Hardy is to look after the Gamps and Harrises of Lambeth and the Strand.”—The Daily Telegraph.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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