grace-and-favor

[greys-uhn-fey-ver]

grace-and-fa·vor

[greys-uhn-fey-ver]
adjective
noting a residence owned by a noble or sovereign and bestowed by him or her upon some person for that person's lifetime.

Origin:
1905–10
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Grace-and-favor is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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