appanage
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A prince to whom an appanage has been granted.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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 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
He was the eldest grandson of Egbert, the first "King of the English," and held, accordingly, the under-kingship of Kent, at that time the usual appanage of the heir-apparent.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
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
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