appanage

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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 Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose

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 unsettled dispute about the appanage had been aggravated by the struggle over their mother's will.

From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva

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 Cooper, Frederic Taber

A prince to whom an appanage has been granted.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah