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apanage

English

  1. 🔊 a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family
    “bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families”
  2. 🔊 any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life
    “for thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use”

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