Associations to the word «Appanage»

Wiktionary

APPANAGE, noun. A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright
APPANAGE, noun. A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position

Dictionary definition

APPANAGE, noun. 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, noun. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats