appanage
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Thus I know that the boy is not, as our minor humorists would have us believe, a mere flourish and gaudy appanage to the plumber's autocratically assumed grandeur.
From The Comforts of Home by Ralph Bergengren
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
The continent was an appanage of his crown; it did not form an integral part of Spain; America and Spain were connected solely through their common allegiance to him.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson
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 Frederic Taber Cooper
The last appanage known in France was that enjoyed by the house of Orleans.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
