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n. A source of revenue, such as land, given by a sovereign for the maintenance of a member of the ruling family.

n. Something extra offered to or claimed by a party as due; a perquisite: The leaders of the opposition party agreed to accept another government's appanages, and in doing so became an officially paid agency of a foreign power.

n. A rightful or customary accompaniment or adjunct.

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

n. A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position

n. The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons.

n. A dependency; a dependent territory.

n. That which belongs to one by custom or right; a natural adjunct or accompaniment.

n. Originally, in the feudal law of France, that which was granted to the sons of the sovereign for their support, as lands and privileges, and which reverted to the crown on the failure of male heirs.

n. Whatever belongs or falls to one from one's rank or station in life.

n. A natural or necessary accompaniment; an endowment or attribute.

n. A dependent territory; a detached part of the dominions of a crown or government: as, India is now only an appanage of Great Britain.

n. Also written apanage, and sometimes appenage.

n. a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family

n. any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life

"By such men as Tom Pargeter and their like, the possibility of material misfortune attacking themselves and those who form what may be called their appanage, is never envisaged; and therefore, when such misfortune comes to them, as it does sooner or later to all human beings, the grim guest's presence is never accepted without an amazed sense of struggle and revolt."

assignment    grant    perk    perquisite    fringe benefit   

dependency    adjunct    appurtenance    proprium    property   

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