To dine with Duke Humphrey Meaning, Definition & Usage

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  1. to go without dinner. See under Dine.
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  1. to go without dinner; a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, 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.

Webster 1913