City, village, court, palace, manor, mansion, residence, and domicile are French; but town, borough, hall, house, bower, room, and home are English.
Although the break with the past did not occur suddenly but extended over many years, there came to be from the time of the Renaissance a complete separation between military and domestic architecture, the former being a fort under military control of the monarch and the latter an unfortified palace, mansion, manor house, or hôtel.
[C10.] Corporate Retreat, Moat Optional Europe's castles, palaces and manor houses are welcoming American companies and associations that rent them for meetings, gala dinners and other functions.
The late 19th-century chief of the Bani Zeid sheikhdom, Sheikh Salih al-Barghouti, resided in a large palace-like manor in Deir Ghassaneh.
Compared to Europe, his homeland seemed a place of absences: "no country gentlemen, no palaces, nor manors, nor old country houses … no great universities nor public schools".
Walking through the vaulted entrance is like being swept into a palace inside a manor inside a museum in a castle.
He transformed Edward's Kennington manor into a palace, long since vanished; Geoffrey Chaucer was clerk of works.
Enter Constantine Katsifis, 39, the owner of the Skylark, along with two other Central Jersey diners and the Pines Manor wedding-reception palace in Edison.
In the Middle Ages, the site of the future palace formed part of the Manor of Ebury (also called Eia).
Other construction work undertaken by Jocelin included the cloisters and bishop's palace at Wells, and a manor house at Wookey.
In late 2007, Waddesdon Manor – that neo-Renaissance palace oddly plonked in the Buckinghamshire countryside – acquired Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin's Boy Building a House of Cards (1735) on long-term loan from a Rothschild family trust.
