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    [Noun]  | "ap*pa*nage" | \ ˈa-pə-nij \


    1: a grant (as of land or revenue) made by a sovereign or a legislative body to a dependent member of the royal family or a principal vassal

    2: a property or privilege appropriated to or by a person as something due

    3: a rightful endowment or adjunct


    Origin: 1602 ;

     French apanage, from Old French, from apaner to provide for a younger offspring, from Medieval Latin appanare, from Latin ad- + panis bread {mat|food|};

    [Noun]  | "a*pa*nage" 


    1: a grant (as of land or revenue) made by a sovereign or a legislative body to a dependent member of the royal family or a principal vassal

    2: a property or privilege appropriated to or by a person as something due

    3: a rightful endowment or adjunct

    [Noun]  | "appanage" 


    1: something granted as a special favor;


      * e.g., " ... use of the grounds was just one appanage he bestowed upon the caretakers of his estate "



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    2: something to which one has a just claim;


      * e.g., " ... wealthy people who believe that political power is their natural appanage "



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