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}]
Apanage \Ap"an*age\, n.
Same as {Appanage}.
[1913 Webster]