appanage
Example Sentences
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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
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 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
In Tuscany, an appanage of Austria, reform bounded along.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
