The Latin grace is read before the start of formal hall.

The children were dressed in their best, and allowed this once to dine in the formal hall.

Kevla found herself standing next to Jareth in an enormous formal hall of ice.

The College grace is read aloud at every formal hall, usually by a student.

This particular formal hall also included a song by a choir and traditional Christmas crackers.

He awaits you in the formal hall of the Keep.

Then, the Matriarch glanced out across the modest formal hall.

You don't have to go to formal hall surely and if you do treat it ironically.

In other formal halls this is usually made by a senior student once the fellows have left.

Where guests from one college are dining at another's formal hall, the rules followed by the hosts tend to apply.