apanage

Definitions

1. A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.
   historical
2. A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position; an accompaniment.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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