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Apanage

//ˈæpənɪd͡ʒ// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright. historical

    "Well, prince, Genoa and Lucca are now nothing more than the apanages, than the private property of the Bonaparte family."

  2. 2
    a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family wordnet
  3. 3
    A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position; an accompaniment.

    "For, though I don't very much want books and opera and etchings and wines and liqueurs—still, if I want them I can have them at any moment. And that sense of security is worth more than a thousand of the temperamental ecstasies and agonies that are the appanage of hard-up youth."

  4. 4
    any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To confer an apanage upon. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French apanage, from Latin *appanare, adpanare (“to give bread”), from pānis (“bread”).

Etymology 2

From French apanage, from Latin *appanare, adpanare (“to give bread”), from pānis (“bread”).

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