Definition of "appanage" []

• A source of revenue, such as land, given by a sovereign for the maintenance of a member of the ruling family. (noun)
• Something extra offered to or claimed by a party as due; a perquisite: The leaders of the opposition party agreed to accept another government's appanages, and in doing so became an officially paid agency of a foreign power. (noun)
• A rightful or customary accompaniment or adjunct. (noun)

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• "By such men as Tom Pargeter and their like, the possibility of material misfortune attacking themselves and those who form what may be called their appanage, is never envisaged; and therefore, when such misfortune comes to them, as it does sooner or later to all human beings, the grim guest's presence is never accepted without an amazed sense of struggle and revolt."
• "I consider myself as a kind of appanage to the family, for my ancestors for several generations were their _maggiordomos_."
• ""Festus Bailey" came to be, to the general mind, an amusing kind of appanage of his own work, which was now taken as read, but ceased to have readers."