appanage

or ap·a·nage

[ ap-uh-nij ]

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noun

land or some other source of revenue assigned for the maintenance of a member of the family of a ruling house.
whatever belongs rightfully or appropriately to one's rank or station in life.

a natural or necessary accompaniment; adjunct.

Origin of appanage

1595–1605; <Middle French, Old French apanage, apeinaige, equivalent to apan(er) to endow (a younger son or daughter) with a maintenance (<Medieval Latin appānāre; ap-ap-¹ + -pānāre, verbal derivative of Latin pānis bread; compare Old Provençal apanar to nourish) + -age-age

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How to use appanage in a sentence

Austria had another appanage whose people cared little for the prestige of their foreign kings and much for their own liberties.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte | William Milligan Sloane
The most interesting feature of Langkor is an ancient temple, an appanage of the great Drophung monastery of Lhasa.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 | Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
She will receive an appanage of twenty-five thousand gulden a year.
A German Pompadour | Marie Hay
Kew had existed for long as a Royal appanage before it was handed over to the Nation.
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Adams had long ago hoisted the British flag and constituted his island an appanage of the British crown.
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

British Dictionary definitions for appanage

appanage

apanage

/ (ˈæpənɪdʒ) /

noun

land or other provision granted by a king for the support of a member of the royal family, esp a younger son
a natural or customary accompaniment or perquisite, as to a job or position

Origin of appanage

C17: from Old French, from Medieval Latin appānāgium, from appānāre to provide for, from Latin pānis bread

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