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apanage
[ ap-uh-nij ]
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Thus the kings in granting a duchy or countship as an apanage to their brothers or sons used the phrase in comitatum et baroniam.
Khazaria became the apanage of his eldest son, and the centre of government amongst the eastern subjects of the Hun .
Pause of an awful nature:—but Fleury does not hasten with the Apanage, as promised.
These islands, which lie at a little distance south of Japan, had for centuries been regarded as an apanage of the Satsuma fief.
His ill-gotten kingdom became 317 an apanage of the Mongol Empire.
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