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English Dictionary: apanage by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
apanage
n
  1. 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"
    Synonym(s): appanage, apanage
  2. 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"
    Synonym(s): appanage, apanage
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Apanage \Ap"an*age\, n.
      Same as {Appanage}.
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