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Duke’s

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A fashionable theatre in the reign of Charles II. It was situate in Portugal Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields. It was named from its great patron, James, Duke of York, afterwards James II. The modern Duke’s theatre.

 

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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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Duke and Duchess
Duke of Exeter’s Daughter (The)
Duke or Darling
Duke’s
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Dulcimer (Italian dolcimello)
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