Both Uses of
hamper
in
My Antonia
- When I went downstairs in the morning, I found grandmother and Jake packing a hamper basket in the kitchen.†
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- Grandmother went on talking in her polite Virginia way, not admitting their stark need or her own remissness, until Jake arrived with the hamper, as if in direct answer to Mrs. Shimerda's reproaches.†
Book 1
Definition:
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(hamper as in: laundry hamper) a container where things are stored