- a variation of appanage.
apanage
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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This breed has been preserved in its purity by the successive Dukes of Newcastle, and may be conPage 309sidered as an aristocratic apanage to their country seats.
From Anecdotes of Dogs by Edward Jesse
Religious belief seems to be the apanage of the Royalist party, and other people think they make a show of Republicanism by throwing over the belief of the Royalists.
From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Jack Allyn
It was Court Marshal von Schulenburg's business to keep his young master's establishment going on the apanage which the Landtag, after Albrecht's accession, had voted the Grand Duke's brother after a serious debate.
From Royal Highness by Thomas Mann
On Easter day an altar was erected, mass celebrated in presence of the natives, the country declared an apanage of Portugal, and a stone cross erected in commemoration of the event.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
Having Neisse for an apanage already his own, he gave it to the Bishop of Breslau; whose, in spite of the old Father's protestings, it continued, and continues.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle
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