appanage
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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 Ralph Bergengren
Francis died on the 10th of June 1584, and the vacant appanage definitively became part of the royal domain.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
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
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
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
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