appanage
Example Sentences
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An appanage of the Crown, they had been called so from the days of William the Conqueror.
From The Pagan's Cup by Fergus Hume
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
The most interesting feature of Langkor is an ancient temple, an appanage of the great Drophung monastery of Lhasa.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
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 Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
This office existed in the German kingdom of Otto the Great, and about this time it appears to have become an appanage of the archbishopric of Mainz.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
