appanage

Example Sentences

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Men had no desire to see the English Crown become an appanage for the heir to the French monarchy.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward

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 Dawson, Thomas C.

An appanage of the Crown, they had been called so from the days of William the Conqueror.

From The Pagan's Cup by Hume, Fergus

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 Sutphen, Van Tassel

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 Bergengren, Ralph