dine with Duke Humphrey

verb

Etymology

Said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.

Definitions

  1. To go without dinner.

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