appanage
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He had put from him the dream of love and happiness, while love and happiness were the just appanage of his years; his ambitious plans left him no time to indulge in dreaming.
From No Surrender by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
For the internal regulation of the conscience it had erected the institution of auricular confession, which by this time had become almost the exclusive appanage of the priesthood.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
The last appanage known in France was that enjoyed by the house of Orleans.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
In Tuscany, an appanage of Austria, reform bounded along.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
Men had no desire to see the English Crown become an appanage for the heir to the French monarchy.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
