appanage

Meanings

Plural: appanages

Noun

• 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"
• 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"
• Alternative form of apanage.

Verb

• Alternative form of apanage.

Synonyms

apanage