appanage
appanage is the alternative form of apanage.
Meaning of apanage
Noun
apanage (plural apanages)
- A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.
- Well, prince, Genoa and Lucca are now nothing more than the apanages, than the private property of the Bonaparte family.1889, Lyof N[ikolayevich] Tolstoï [i.e., Leo Tolstoy], chapter I, in Nathan Haskell Dole, transl., War and Peace […] In Four Volumes, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Co. […]...
- A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position; an accompaniment.
- For, though I don't very much want books and opera and etchings and wines and liqueurs—still, if I want them I can have them at any moment. And that sense of security is worth more than a thousand of the temperamental ecstasies and agonies that are the appanage of hard-up youth.1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London, New York: Henry Holt and Company
Forms of appanage
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | appanages |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | appanages |
| present participle | appanaging |
| past participle | appanaged |
| past | appanaged |
Questions about appanage
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