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From French apanage, from Latin *appanare, adpanare (“to give bread”), from pānis (“bread”).

apanage (plural apanages)

(historical) A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.
- 1889, Lyof N[ikolayevich] Tolstoï [i.e., Leo Tolstoy], chapter I, in Nathan Haskell Dole, transl., War and Peace […] In Four Volumes, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Co. […], →OCLC, part first, page 1:
  Well, prince, Genoa and Lucca are now nothing more than the apanages, than the private property of the Bonaparte family.
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 1046:
  they suspected that Peter II was only waiting till he had saved enough of his apanage to run away to some more civilized country.
A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position; an accompaniment.
- 1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London‎^[1], New York: Henry Holt and Company:
  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.

grant as a birthright

apanage (third-person singular simple present apanages, present participle apanaging, simple past and past participle apanaged)

apanage c (singular definite apanagen, plural indefinite apanager)

Declension of apanage