dinari

Updated: May 10, 2025

I haven't lost my aristocratic taste for seven courses, and an elegant succession of still fine sparkling wines, though during the last few years I've been rather frequently constrained to accept the shadowy hospitality of his grace of Humphrey. 'Nante dinari, nante manjare, as we say in the Classics, which I translate, 'No credit at the butcher's or the baker's."

M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - Henry Dunbar : A Novel