▪ I. sup, n.1
(sʌp)
Forms: α. 6– sup, 6–7 suppe, 7 supp. β. 7 soope, 7–8 (9 dial.) soop, soup, (8 Sc. soupe, 9 dial. sowp, zoop).
[f. sup v.1
There is no evidence of continuity with OE. s{uacu}pa (cf. MLG. sûpe, early mod.Du. zuipe, Du. zuip, ON. s{uacu}pa).
The isolated instance of sense 2, unless it be a misprint, is difficult to account for.]
1. A small quantity of liquid such as can be taken into the mouth at one time; a mouthful; a sip. (Also in fig. context.)
| α 1570 Levins Manip. 189/37 A Suppe, sorbillum. 1621 Fletcher Pilgrim iv. i, I'le bring you a sup of Milk shall serve ye. 1657 J. Watts Scribe, Pharisee, etc. iii. 71 A sup of wine (as a morsel of bread) may do well enough. 1710 Brit. Apollo III. No. 47. 3/1 To see his Brave Army Engage; And to Swallow up, The Allies at a sup. 1719 De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 82, I went to my little Store and took a small Sup of Rum. a 1764 Lloyd Fam. Ep. to J. B. Poet. Wks. 1774 II. 40 With so much wisdom bottled up, Uncork, and give your friends a sup. 1840 Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. v. (1872) 49 Taking a small sup at the brandy⁓bottle. 1872 Calverley Fly Leaves, On the Brink ix, A sup Of barley-water. 1888 W. S. Gilbert Yeom. Guard i, Who sipped no sup, and who craved no crumb. |
| β 1633 Orkney Witch Trial in Abbotsford Club Miscell. 152 The powre woman sent in to the said Robertis house, and got ane soup off milk from his wyff. 1662 Tuke Adv. 5 Hours i. 10 A soop of Chocolate Is not amiss after a tedious Journey. 1667 Dryden Tempest ii. i, Here's another soop to comfort us. 1719 D'Urfey Pills (1872) III. 7 I'll take a full Soop at the merry Milk-pail. 1785 Burns Cotter's Sat. Nt. xi, The soupe their only Hawkie does afford. 1818 Scott Rob Roy xviii, It's the part of a kind son to bring her a soup o' something that will keep up her auld heart. 1851 Sternberg Northampt. Dial., Soop, a sup, drop. |
b. Phr. (a) bit (later bite) and (a) sup, a little food and drink. So bit or sup, neither bit nor sup.
| 1665 in Verney Mem. (1904) II. 244, I save [? have] a bitt and supp bye myselfe 2 owers after them. 1818 Lady Morgan Autobiog. (1859) 148 The moment..we had swallowed our ‘bit and our sup,’ out we sallied. 1865 G. Macdonald Alec Forbes 15 I'll tak her in wi' my ain bairns, an' she s' hae bit and sup wi' them. 1880 Browning Dram. Idylls Ser. ii. Pietro of Abano 233 Lodging, bite and sup, with—now and then—a copper..is all my asking. 1902 V. Jacob Sheep-Stealers ix, The pleasant offer of a bite and a sup. |
c. transf. Drink. dial.
| a 1810 Tannahill Poor Tom Poems (1846) 109 Poor Tom loves his sup, and poor Tom is despised. 1876 Whitby Gloss., Sup, Suppings, Sups, drink of all kinds. |
d. a good sup: a fair amount, a considerable quantity (of liquid). dial.
| 1601 Archpriest Controv. (Camden) II. 173 If a cow give a good soope of milke, she is to be thanked. 1848 A. Brontë Agnes Grey i, [Of a fall of rain] It's comed a good sup last night too. 1872 Hartley Yorksh. Ditties Ser. i. 97 They reckon to brew a gooid sup o' ale in October. |
† 2. = sop n.1 1. Obs. rare.
| 1543 Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. ii. viii. vi. 82 He muste..eate a sup or shewe made with grated breed & almandes [orig. panatellam fariolam amigdalatam..confectam]. |
▪ II. sup, n.2 Math.
(sʌp)
[f. supremum.]
Supremum (of).
| 1940, 1949 [see infimum]. 1968 E. T. Copson Metric Spaces i. 14 The supremum or least upper bound of A..is denoted by sup A. |
▪ III. sup, n.3 Chiefly colloq.
(sʌp)
Also supp and with point.
[Abbrev. of supplement n.1]
= supplement n.1 1 b. Usu. as final element: colour sup, Sunday sup; lit. sup. (see also n. and a.).
| 1887 in N.E.D. s.v. Begin v.1 4 a, quot. 1875. 1910 J. Bailey Let. 1 Jan. (1935) 118 No one has ever got into poetry more of the Augustinian sense of the urgency of God claiming the human soul, as I said in Lit. Sup. when I wrote on the Selected Poems a year and a half ago. 1932 V. Woolf Let. in K. Martin Editor (1968) i. 30, I used to write regularly for The Times Lit. Sup. 1968 Punch 6 Nov. 646/2, I don't want to..get myself interviewed in a colour-supp series. 1975 J. Symons Three Pipe Problem xv. 136, I read this Observer colour supp. piece, you see. 1979 Guardian 27 Apr. 8/7 He sounded as if he was satirising himself, with his praises of the colour sups and the late Lord Thomson. 1986 P. Reading Essential Reading 54 Less weighty, a Sunday Sup. reports on Alcoholism. |
▪ IV. sup, v.1
(sʌp)
Forms: α. 1 supan, 4–5 supe, 4–6 sowp(e, 4–7 soup(e, (4 soupen, 5 sowpon(e, 6 sope, 6–7 soope, 7–8, 9 (dial.) soop, 9 dial. soup, zoop). β. 1 Northumb. suppa, 4–7 suppe, (5 souppe, 6 soppe, 8 supp), 5– sup. pa. tense strong 1 seap (sæp), 4 sop, 4–5 soop; weak 1 Northumb. -supede, 4 soupede, -ide, sowpide, 6 suppit, supt(e, 6– supped. pa. pple. strong 4 soopen, soupen, 4–5 sopen, -un; weak 4 sowpyd, 5 suppyd, 6 suppit, supte, 7 supt, soopt, soop'd, 6– supped.
[Three types of formation on the Teutonic root sū̆p- (cf. sop n.1, v.1, sope, sowp n.1) are represented here: (1) OE. s{uacu}pan strong vb., pa. tense séap (*supon), pa. pple. *sopen = MLG. sûpen, MDu. zûpen (Du. zuipen), OHG. sûfan (MHG. sûfen, G. saufen, in dial. strong and weak), ON. s{uacu}pa; (2) OE. *suppan, once in Northumb. pres. ind. pl. suppas, corresp. to OHG. suphjan, supphan, suffan (MHG., G. dial. supfen); (3) OE. *sū̆pian, once in Northumb. weak pa. tense pl. ᵹesupedon.
The forms with pp in ME. appear first in northern texts.]
1. a. trans. To take (liquid) into the mouth in small quantities (as opposed to a draught); † also with in. Now chiefly Sc. and north. dial.; often spec. to take (liquid food) with a spoon.
| α c 1000 ælfric Saints' Lives iii. 162 He sæp [v.r. seap] of ðæm calice eac swylce blod. c 1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 184 Ᵹe þeah þu mid cuclere þæt supe. Ibid. 336 Ᵹif he þæt broð þonne ær sypð. a 1327 Poem times Edw. II 238 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 334 The best he piketh up himself,..And ȝeveth the gode man soupe the lene broth. c 1340 Nominale (Skeat) 190 W[oman] mylk and wortis soupith. c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) xiv. 62 Þai ete bot flesch withouten breed and soupez þe broo. 1470–85 Malory Arthur vii. v. 219 Thou woldest not for alle the brothe that euer thou soupest ones loke hym in the face. 1530 Palsgr. 726/2, I have herde saye that he was dede, but he wyll sowpe as hoote potage as you. 1590 P. Barrough Meth. Phisick iii. iii. (1639) 105 It is also good for them to soupe the juice of Quinces. 1640 Brome Sparagus Gard. ii. iii, A Phesants egge soopt with a Peacocks feather. 1643 Trapp Comm. Gen. xxv. 33 As Gideons souldiers, to soop their handful, not to swill their belly-full. 1721 Bailey, To Sip, to soop a little. |
| β 13.. E.E. Allit. P. B. 108 Þyse ilk renkez..Schul neuer sitte in my sale my soper to fele, Ne suppe on sope of my seve. a 1400–50 Wars Alex. 3805 Þis solayne sope [= sope n.] if I sup. c 1450 Bk. Curtasye 69 in Babees Bk., Ne suppe not with grete sowndynge Noþer potage ne oþer þynge. 1587 Turberv. Trag. Tales (1837) 143 Who..The poyson supt, and tooke it patientlie. 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 193 Which of all these..Could get one bit to eat, or drop suppe? a 1682 F. Sempill Blythesome Wedding 65 And sing'd sheep-heads, and a haggize, And scadlips to sup till ye're fow. 1692 Tryon Good House-wife i. 5 You must take nourishing Meats and Drinks, sup good Sack, Old Malago, Tent, or the like. ? 1787 Burns Gudeen to you, Kimmer ii, Kate sits i' the neuk, Suppin' hen-broo. 1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage xxvii, Girls that sup their porridge will always cut a good figure. 1841 Thackeray Gt. Hoggarty Diam. xiii, After dinner, it was with difficulty I could get her to sup a little drop of wine-and-water, and dip a toast in it. 1872 Hartley Yorksh. Ditties Ser. ii. 107 Sellin' drink has made mony a chap rich, an suppin it has made thaasands poor. 1889 Barrie Window in Thrums 114 He began to sup his porridge. |
b. To drink up or off, swallow, esp. by mouthfuls or spoonfuls. † Also with out, in.
| 1375 Creation 473 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 130 Me þoȝte Kaym tok Abellis blod And sop it op as he were wod. c 1440 Alphabet of Tales 463 A white duffe..suppid of all þat was in þe chales with hur neb. c 1450 Mankind 765 in Macro Plays 28 My prepotent father, when ȝe sowpe, sowpe owt yowur messe. a 1529 Skelton E. Rumming 380 Ales founde therin no thornes, But supped it [sc. ale] vp at ones. 1535 Coverdale Isa. v. 22 Wo vnto them, y{supt} are connynge men to suppe out wyne. 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 28/1 We must first let him suppe in a soft dressed egge. 1600 J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa iii. 142 Then will he sup off a cup of cold water as big as a milke-bowle. 1620 Venner Via Recta v. 84 A couple of potched Egges,..supped off warme, eating therewithall a little bread and butter. 1747 Wesley Prim. Physick (1762) 53 Sup it up in the morning fasting. 1870 Mrs. Julie P. Smith Widow Goldsmith's Dau. iii, The contents dealt out into the cracked bowl and tin cup, were immediately distributed; they eagerly supped it up. 1885 ‘Ouida’ Rainy June 133 To rattle down the Bois in a milord, and sup off a matelote by the lake with your Romeo. |
2. intr. To take a sip or sips: to take drink by mouthfuls or spoonfuls; † formerly with partitive of. Also const. up. Now chiefly Sc. and north. dial. (or in imitation of this).
| c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxvii. 34 Cum gustasset, mið ðy ᵹebiriᵹde vel ᵹeseap. c 1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 50 Sup swa ðu hatost mæᵹe. 13.. Coer de L. 3085 Lord, we have pork sought; Etes, and soupes off the browys swote. c 1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 150 Avaunt ke il hume [gloss soupe]. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. ii. 96 In fastyng-dayes to frete ar ful tyme were And þanne to sitten and soupen til slepe hem assaille. c 1475 Babees Bk. 144 Whenne your potage to yow shalle be brouhte, Take yow sponys, and soupe by no way. c 1500 Young Childr. Bk. 127 in Babees Bk., When þou sopys, make no noyse With thi mouth As do boys. 1542 Brinklow Lament. (1874) 89 We soppe of the broth in which the deuell was soden. 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. iv. 22 A bouzing can, Of which he supt so oft, that on his seat His dronken corse he scarse vpholden can. 1616 B. Jonson Forest ix. 7 Might I of Iove's nectar sup. 1701 Grew Cosm. Sacra i. v. §6. 26 Nor therefore could we Supp, or Swallow, without it [sc. the tongue]. 1869 Lonsdale Gloss., Sup up, to drink off a glass of liquor. 1898 J. Macmanus Bend of Road 94 There wasn't a man ever supped from a noggin in Corradooey he couldn't sweep the floor with! 1952 M. Tripp Faith is Windsock v. 86 Now sup up, as Arthur [a north-countryman] says, and have one on me. 1971 D. Lees Rainbow Conspiracy ix. 152 Sup up first—tha's let the beer get cold. 1977 Scollins & Titford Ey up, mi Duck! III. 30 Men were content just to gossip and ‘sup’. |
| transf. 13.. E.E. Allit. P. C. 151 Þe sayl sweyed on þe see, þenne suppe bihoued Þe coge of þe colde water. |
† 3. transf. and fig. a. trans. Chiefly with up: To swallow up, consume, absorb. Obs.
Frequent as a rendering of L. absorbere in biblical versions.
| c 897 ælfred Gregory's Past. C. lviii. 447 Forðonðe he..nis nauðer, ne hat, ne ceald, ðeah ic hine supe, ic hine wille eft utaspiwan of minum muðe. c 1000 Ags. Ps. (Th.) lxviii. 15 Ne me se seað supe mid muðe. a 1340 Hampole Psalter lxviii. 19 Drown me not þe storme of watire: ne supe me þe grounde. 1382 Wyclif Isa. xxviii. 7 Thei ben sopen awei of wyn, thei erreden in drunkenesse. ― 1 Cor. xv. 54 Deeth is sopun vp in victorie. ― Rev. xii. 16 The erthe openyde his mouth, and soupide [v.r. sop vp, soop vp] the flood. c 1400 Psalter (MS. Bodl. 554) iii. 5 marg., As sopun up for sorewe. 1532 More Confut. Tindale Wks. 713/1 As for al other sinnes whatsoeuer thei be, faith saith he..suppeth them al vp in a moment. 1566 Drant Wail. Hierim. K iv, The battred wall, prostrate dyd fall,..The earthe supte up the gorgious gates. 1598 T. Bastard Chrestol. i. xl. 25 Foure lines, which hold me tug an hower or twaine He sups up with a breath and takes no paine. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. iii. 319 [A lake] whose waters gush so fast out of the ground, that they will overtake a swift horseman, and by and by with as incredible celerity [are] supped vp. 1652 N. Culverwel Lt. Nature i. xvii. (1661) 158 A Ship ready to be split upon a rock, or to be soop'd up of a Wave. |
† b. Of material objects: To take in (water, air). Also sup out in the opposite sense. Obs.
| 1513 Douglas æneis vi. vi. 64 The jonit barge, Sa full of riftis, and with lekkis perbraik, Scho suppit huge wattir of the laik. 1566 Drant Horace, Sat. i. iv. B viij, As bellowes sup and beltch out wyndes, to make the yron softe. 1567 Golding Ovid's Met. vii. (1593) 153 And how Charybdis..Now sowpeth in, now sowpeth out the sea incessantly. 1644 Nye Gunnery ii. (1670) 33 Such a peece [of ordnance]..which suppeth and reteineth continually more and more of that wind, which should serve to expell the bullet. |
† c. to sup up: (a) to take in, ‘swallow’ (a story); (b) to utter indistinctly, also to retract (one's words). Obs.
| 1579 Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim., etc. 518/1 We see that euery man is but too light of credit to sup vp that that shalbee spoken, if there be once any euill report of the Ministers of Gods worde. 1581 G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. ii. (1586) 58 b, We must speak freelie without supping vp our wordes, and bringing them but half forth. 1597 Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxii. §14 When..they haue put vs in hope of agreement, wherefore sup they vp their wordes againe? 1611 Cotgr., Humer le parole, foolishly to sup, or sucke vp, his owne words; to speake abruptly, or vndistinctly. |
† d. absol. or intr. of waters, etc. Obs.
In 1382 and 1611 a literalism of translation.
| 1382 Wyclif Isa. xlii. 14, I shal scateren, and soupen awei togidere. 1513 Douglas æneis iii. vi. 128 The large fludis suppis thrise in ane swelth, And wther quhilis spowtis in the air agane. 1611 Bible Hab. i. 9 Their faces shall sup vp as the East winde, and they shall gather the captiuitie as the sand. |
4. fig. To have experience of; to taste; esp. to sup sorrow: cf. L. haurire dolorem (Cicero).
| c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xvi. 28 Qui non gustabunt mortem, ða ðe ne suppas deað. Ibid. Mark, Introd. 4/3 Gustaturos quosdam mortem, hia þet ᵹebiriᵹdon vel ᵹesupedon weron sume oðer þone deað. c 1395 Plowman's Tale 1096 Holy churche shuld stand full cold, Hir servaunts sitte and soupe sorowe. 1560 A. L. tr. Calvin's Foure Serm. Songe Ezech. i, I do nothing but sup up the drink of sorrow. 1599 Peele Sir Clyom. Wks. 1839 III. 123 To sup his dire destruction there for wretched love of me. 1731–8 Swift Pol. Conversat. 57 I'll make you one Day sup Sorrow for this. 1839 W. Carleton Fardorougha xvi, You'd make him sup sorrow for his harshness. 1901 C. G. Harper Gt. North Road II. 294 Petty delinquents supped sorrow at their hands with a big spoon. |
▪ V. sup, v.2
(sʌp)
Forms: α. 3–6 soupe, 4–5 sope, 4–6 sowpe, (3, 6 Sc. supe, 4 soupi, sopi, souppe, sowpy, sowppe, 5 soope, sopye, 6 Sc. soup, sowp). β. 5–7 suppe, (5 suppon, 6 soppe), 6– sup.
[a. OF. soper, super, (also mod.F.) souper = Pr. sopar, of obscure origin.]
1. intr. To eat one's supper; to take supper.
| α c 1290 Beket 697 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 126 Heo setten bord and spradden cloth, and bi-gonne to soupe [other vers. sopi] faste. c 1300 Havelok 1765–6 He..dide greyþe a super riche,..Þat he mithe supe swiþe wel. Also he seten, and sholde soupe, So comes a ladde in a ioupe. 13.. Sir Beues (A.) 3088 Þat ilche kniȝt, Þat sopede wiþ þe ȝerstene niȝt. 1390 Gower Conf. II. 359 Whan thei hadden souped there, Thei schopen hem to gon to reste. 1470–85 Malory Arthur iv. vi. 126 When they had souped at her leyser kyng Arthur was ledde vnto a chamber. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems lxix. 45 How glaid that ever I dyne or sowp. ? 1579 Montgomerie Misc. Poems xlviii. 67 My fortun wes to be Ludgit..with this same companie; Soupit togither; in ane chalmer lay. |
| β 14.. Chaucer's Frankl. T. 489 (Cambr. MS.) It is al redy thow ȝe wele rygh now. Go we thanne suppe [v.r. soupe]. c 1440 Alphabet of Tales 190 When he had suppid, þer lefte right noght ouer night vnto in þe mornyng. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 484/2 Suppon, ceno. 1538 Starkey England (1878) 26 Hyt ys late and tyme to suppe. 1592 Arden of Feversham iv. iii. 13 If this weather would last..a man should neuer dyne nor sup without candle light. 1620 Venner Via Recta viii. 173 We commonly sup about six houres after we haue dined. 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 786 He never supt in solemn State. 1711 Swift Lett. (1767) III. 221, I..supped with lord treasurer,..I staid till two;..I must sup with him, and he keeps cursed hours. 1777 H. Walpole Let. to H. S. Conway 10 July, I kept him to sup, sleep..and breakfast here this morning. 1837 Lockhart Scott I. ix. 286 The officers of the Light Horse..established a club among themselves, supping once a-week at each other's houses in rotation. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 July 8/1 The Prince and Princess of Wales supped on the Lyceum stage with Mr. Irving and Miss Terry. |
b. Const. on, upon, off († of, with) the food.
| ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 1025 He sowppes..with seuene knaue childre, Choppid in a chargour. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) III. 204 Of grene herbis rycht oft [he] did soupe and dyne. 1603 Shakes. Meas. for M. iv. iii. 159, I am faine to dine and sup with water and bran. 1702 Yalden Fables v. 23 He din'd and supp'd upon the best. 1829 Scott Rob Roy Introd. ad init., They..took a wedder from the fold, killed it, and supped off the carcass. 1890 Doyle White Company xxvii, They supped on good fare, and slept between lavender-scented sheets. |
c. trans. To make a supper of; also with cognate object. rare.
| ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 1208 To sowpe withe þat soueraygne ffulle selcouthe metez. 1809 Malkin Gil Blas vii. xi, After having supped the supper of the damned. 1851 Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi Wind. i. 220 Before the eyes of men, awake at last, Who put away the meats they used to sup. |
2. fig. (or in fig. context) and allusively.
† to sup with our Saviour, sup with Jesus Christ, to sup in heaven or hell (after Rev. iii. 20): said of persons who have died or are about to die. Cf. supper n.1 1 b.
In quot. 1605 with is to be construed with supt (cf. quot. 1603 in 1 b), but in modern echoes of the passage of is often substituted, and construed with full.
| [1382 Wyclif Rev. iii. 20 If ony man shal here my voys, and opene the ȝat, I shal entre to him, and soupe with him. c 1386 Chaucer Pars. T. ¶216, I wol entre in-to hym by my grace, and soupe with hym by the goode werkes þat he shal doon, whiche werkes been the foode of god.] ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 3805 We salle..Souppe with oure Saueoure solemply in heuene. a 1572 Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 170 My faith is such, that my saule sall sowp with my Saviour this nycht. 1593 Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, v. i. 214 You shall sup with Iesu Christ to night. 1605 ― Macb. v. v. 13, I haue supt full with horrors. 1607 ― Cor. iv. ii. 50 Angers my Meate: I suppe vpon my selfe. 1642 Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. xxi. 137 Dining on Christ in the Sacrament, expecting no other then to sup with him in heaven. 1667 Milton P.L. v. 426 The Sun..at Even Sups with the Ocean. 1812 Shelley Devil's Walk x, They sup on the groans of the dying and dead. 1830 Scott Demonol. vii. 211 The reader may sup full on such wild horrors in the Causes Célèbres. 1873 Burton Hist. Scot. VI. lxxiii. 352 People had supped full of horrors. |
3. trans. a. Falconry and Venery. To give the last feed of the day to (a hawk, horse, or hound). Also with up.
| 1575 Turberv. Faulconrie 133 Let hir flee but once, and suppe hir vp vpon the pray. Ibid. 215 At euening conuey it [sc. a casting] into hir gorge, after you haue supt hir. Ibid. 310 Supping hir euery night with a ratte or a mouse. 1596 Shakes. Tam. Shr. Ind. i. 28 Huntsman I charge thee, tender wel my hounds... But sup them well, and looke vnto them all. 1622 Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. 228 Is it fit..To feede a horse with sand? To sup a Falcon with straw? 1798 Trans. Soc. Arts XVI. 152 At the time of supping the horses up, after they are bedded, give every horse a small armful. 1805 James Milit. Dict. (ed. 2), To sup up, a term used in the British cavalry, to signify the last duty that is performed.., when the horses are allowed to rest for the night. 1810– in Eng. Dial. Dict. |
† b. Of food: To furnish a supper for. Obs. rare.
| 1588 Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 698 If a haue no more mans blood in's belly, then will sup a Flea. 1653 Walton Angler i. iv, Having caught more fish than will sup myself and my friend. |
c. To give a supper to, entertain at supper.
| 1619 in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1848) II. 174 This day, I think, the Lorraine ambassador is supped. 1865 Sala in Reader No. 117. 337/1 They will breakfast you, they will sup you. 1907 Daily Chron. 20 July 3/2 They lunched her at the Carlton, dined her at the Trocadero, supped her at Prince's. |