appanage

American  

[ap-uh-nij] / ˈæp ə nɪdʒ /

Or apanage

noun

1. land or some other source of revenue assigned for the maintenance of a member of the family of a ruling house.

2. whatever belongs rightfully or appropriately to one's rank or station in life.

3. a natural or necessary accompaniment; adjunct.

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appanage British  

/ ˈæpənɪdʒ /

noun

1. land or other provision granted by a king for the support of a member of the royal family, esp a younger son

2. a natural or customary accompaniment or perquisite, as to a job or position

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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

Example Sentences

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appanage

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

Napoleon's sword has sliced off the continent—France, Holland, Spain, Italy, Prussia—and his fork is dug spitefully into Hanover, which was then an appanage of the British crown.

From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Frederic Taber Cooper

His glory is the property of no party or opinion; it is the appanage and inheritance of all.

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith

But that risk is really remote, since the great desk and chair are the natural appanage of the Master of the "Hundred"; it will not be usual for anyone else to trespass upon that prerogative.

From In Jeopardy by Van Tassel Sutphen

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