Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word APANAGE
APANAGE
Definitions of APANAGE
- A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position; an accompaniment.
- (historical) A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.
- (transitive) To confer an apanage upon.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using APANAGE in a Sentence
- His original apanage was the district of Bresse, close to the French and Burgundian border, but it was lost and therefore Philip received his sobriquet "the Landless", or "Lackland".
- "In fact, so many members of the family occupied the position that it had begun to be considered as practically a familial apanage to which the Salignac-Fénelon had a right as seigneurs of the locality".
- In 1710, he was invested with his apanage, consisting in the duchies of Alençon, of Angoulême, county of Ponthieu and other minor fiefs.
- In charters of the Anglo-Saxon period a haw, or enclosed area within a burh, was often conveyed by charter as if it were an apanage of the lands in the neighbourhood with which it was conveyed; the Norman settlers who succeeded to lands in the county succeeded therewith to houses in the burhs, for a close association existed between the thegns of the shire and the shirestow, an association partly perhaps of duty and also of privilege.
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