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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" [synonym: {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" [synonym: {appanage}, {apanage}]