appanage

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A prince to whom an appanage has been granted.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

In Tuscany, an appanage of Austria, reform bounded along.

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

He was the eldest grandson of Egbert, the first "King of the English," and held, accordingly, the under-kingship of Kent, at that time the usual appanage of the heir-apparent.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward

In the history of France, however, the appanage was a very important factor.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

Acre was added to acre and estate to estate,141 often by the dangerous expedient of borrowed money, until Buckinghamshire seemed likely to become the appanage of the family.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose