appanage

Example Sentences

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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

But that risk is really remote, since the great desk and chair are the natural appanage of the Master of the "Hundred"; it will not be usual for anyone else to trespass upon that prerogative.

From In Jeopardy by Sutphen, Van Tassel

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

Even the Papacy, the only stable power, had become the appanage of a Roman family.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight

He has an appanage, or territory, assigned to him to "eat," like other princes of the Empire.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various