What is the meaning of appanage?

noun

  • Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life.
    • usage: "for thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use"
  • A grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family.
    • usage: "bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families"
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