appanage

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• October 25. 2014 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  appanage — noun — english

  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"

• February 26. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  appanage — noun — english

  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"