[syn: appanage, apanage]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Apanage \Ap"an*age\, n.
Same as Appanage.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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" [syn: 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" [syn: appanage, apanage]