appanage
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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 new member of the ruling House would waive all claim to an appanage.
From Royal Highness by Thomas Mann
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
Even the Papacy, the only stable power, had become the appanage of a Roman family.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
In Tuscany, an appanage of Austria, reform bounded along.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
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