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 G. Barnett Smith
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 Van Tassel Sutphen
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
Later, King Francis I. again gave the duchy as an appanage to his mother, Louise of Savoy, by letters patent of the 4th of February 1515.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
But the rest of the tribe looked upon him merely as an appanage of Peter Many-Names, and not a particularly creditable one at that.
From Dick's Desertion A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests by Marjorie L. C. Pickthall
