apanage
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apanage
- /ˈæpənɪd͡ʒ/
Where it comes from
From French apanage, from Latin *appanare, adpanare (“to give bread”), from pānis (“bread”).
noun apanages · appanage
- 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.
- 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 apanages · apanaging · apanaged · appanage
- To confer an apanage upon.
