Sentence:  With real though rude art, the harlequin danced slowly backwards out of the door into the garden, which was full of moonlight and stillness. The <WSD>vamped</WSD> dress of silver paper and paste, which had been too glaring in the footlights, looked more and more magical and silvery as it danced away under a brilliant moon. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  "Often as" '''(vamp up)''': to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.