appanage
Americannoun
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land or some other source of revenue assigned for the maintenance of a member of the family of a ruling house.
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whatever belongs rightfully or appropriately to one's rank or station in life.
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a natural or necessary accompaniment; adjunct.
noun
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land or other provision granted by a king for the support of a member of the royal family, esp a younger son
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a natural or customary accompaniment or perquisite, as to a job or position
Etymology
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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The unsettled dispute about the appanage had been aggravated by the struggle over their mother's will.
From Rupert Prince Palatine by Eva Scott
Acre was added to acre and estate to estate,141 often by the dangerous expedient of borrowed money, until Buckinghamshire seemed likely to become the appanage of the family.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
He was the eldest grandson of Egbert, the first "King of the English," and held, accordingly, the under-kingship of Kent, at that time the usual appanage of the heir-apparent.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
In 1237 Artois, which was raised to a countship the following year, was conferred as an appanage by Saint Louis on his brother 699 Robert, who died on crusade in 1250.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
The most interesting feature of Langkor is an ancient temple, an appanage of the great Drophung monastery of Lhasa.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
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