appanage
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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
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
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
He has an appanage, or territory, assigned to him to "eat," like other princes of the Empire.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various
An appanage of the Crown, they had been called so from the days of William the Conqueror.
From The Pagan's Cup by Fergus Hume
