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apanage
/ˈæpənɪd͡ʒ/
noun 2verb 1
Collocations
2ADJ.
enough
ADV.
away
Definitions
noun
1
A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.
Well, prince, Genoa and Lucca are now nothing more than the apanages, than the private property of the Bonaparte family.
they suspected that Peter II was only waiting till he had saved enough of his apanage to run away to some more civilized country.
2
A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position; an accompaniment.
For, though I don't very much want books and opera and etchings and wines and liqueurs—still, if I want them I can have them at any moment. And that sense of security is worth more than a thousand of the temperamental ecstasies and agonies that are the appanage of hard-up youth.
verb
1
To confer an apanage upon.
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Well, prince, Genoa and Lucca are now nothing more than the apanages, than the private property of the Bonaparte family.
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they suspected that Peter II was only waiting till he had saved enough of his apanage to run away to some more civilized country.
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For, though I don't very much want books and opera and etchings and wines and liqueurs—still, if I want them I can have them at any moment. And that sense of security is worth more than a thousand of
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