apanage
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/ˈæpənɪd͡ʒ/
Definition of apanage
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(historical)A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.
“Well, prince, Genoa and Lucca are now nothing more than the apanages, than the private property of the Bonaparte family.”
“they suspected that Peter II was only waiting till he had saved enough of his apanage to run away to some more civilized country.”
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noun
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(historical)A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.
“Well, prince, Genoa and Lucca are now nothing more than the apanages, than the private property of the Bonaparte family.”
“they suspected that Peter II was only waiting till he had saved enough of his apanage to run away to some more civilized country.”
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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.”
verb
- (transitive)To confer an apanage upon.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From French apanage, from Latin *appanare, adpanare (“to give bread”), from pānis (“bread”).
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