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grace and favor

grace and favor is the alternative form of grace and favour.

Meaning of grace and favour

Noun

grace and favour (uncountable)

  1. (UK) Owned by the sovereign or government and granted free of rent to a person as an expression of gratitude or obligation.
    • In 1986 a fire began in a grace-and-favour apartment above the King's Apartments in the south Wren wing.2005, Nigel R. Jones, Architecture of England, Scotland, and Wales, page 127

Questions about grace and favor

What is grace and favor the alternative form of?
Grace and favor is the alternative form of grace and favour.

Words near grace and favor in the dictionary

  1. grac't
  2. Graca
  3. Gracas
  4. Gracchus
  5. grace
  6. grace and favor
  7. grace and favour
  8. Grace Estate
  9. grace note
  10. grace notes
  11. Grace Park East

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