apanage

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noun

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
• Hypernyms:
fringe benefit, perquisite, perk
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
• Hypernyms:
grant, assignment