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Apanage

noun
1.
Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life.  Synonym: appanage.
2.
A grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family.  Synonym: appanage.





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"Apanage" Quotes from Famous Books



... resolved themselves at once, as by some enchantment, into a lovely, unexpected chord of extreme simplicity; and Martia was gently but firmly put aside, and the divine Julia quietly relegated to the gilded throne which was her fit and proper apanage. ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier


Words linked to "Apanage" :   assignment, perquisite, perk, fringe benefit, grant


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