appanage

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It must be borne in mind, however, that Ceylon is an appanage of the British Crown, and it is not an independent, self-supporting colony.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

In very few cases in all the world and in all ages has it happened that intellectual distinction has been the appanage of one family for as many generations as in that of the Guarini.

From The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes by Various

The new member of the ruling House would waive all claim to an appanage.

From Royal Highness by Mann, Thomas

Although the hereditary title of Count was the appanage of this rank, he never took it up.

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by Smith, G. Barnett

Napoleon's sword has sliced off the continent—France, Holland, Spain, Italy, Prussia—and his fork is dug spitefully into Hanover, which was then an appanage of the British crown.

From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber