apanage

2 definitions found

apanage - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Apanage \Ap"an*age\, n.
     Same as Appanage.
     [1913 Webster]

apanage - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  apanage
      n 1: 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" [syn: appanage, apanage]
      2: 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" [syn: appanage, apanage]