apanage

plural apanages · alternative appanage

1. historicalA 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.

   1889, Lyof N[ikolayevich] Tolstoï [i.e., Leo Tolstoy], chapter I, in Nathan Haskell Dole, transl., War and Peace […] In Four Volumes, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Co. […], →OCLC, part first, page 1

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   they suspected that Peter II was only waiting till he had saved enough of his apanage to run away to some more civilized country.

   1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 1046

2. 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.

   1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London, New York: Henry Holt and Company

present singular third person apanages · participle present apanaging · participle past apanaged · past apanaged · alternative appanage

1. transitiveTo confer an apanage upon.