appanage

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The unsettled dispute about the appanage had been aggravated by the struggle over their mother's will.

From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva

Hitherto it has been almost the exclusive appanage of conquerors; but one preceding poet was universally called the Great Corneille, and henceforth we shall say the Great Victor Hugo.

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by Smith, G. Barnett

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

In very few cases in all the world and in all ages has it happened that intellectual distinction has been the appanage of one family for as many generations as in that of the Guarini.

From The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes by Various

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