appanage
Example Sentences
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Acre was added to acre and estate to estate,141 often by the dangerous expedient of borrowed money, until Buckinghamshire seemed likely to become the appanage of the family.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
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
The most interesting feature of Langkor is an ancient temple, an appanage of the great Drophung monastery of Lhasa.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
The new member of the ruling House would waive all claim to an appanage.
From Royal Highness by Thomas Mann
Although the hereditary title of Count was the appanage of this rank, he never took it up.
From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith
