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appanage   (TTS Sound)

The noun appanage has 2 senses

• appanage, apanage -- (any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life; "for thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use")


• appanage, apanage -- (a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family; "bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families")