appanage

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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 Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth

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 Bergengren, Ralph

It was made an independent comt� of itself in 1569, and in 1663 became definitely an appanage of Orleans.

From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

But the Abbey of Vlaye is still our appanage.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.

The new member of the ruling House would waive all claim to an appanage.

From Royal Highness by Mann, Thomas