apanage
英 ['æpənɪdʒ]
美
- n. 属地;封地
英英释意
- 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"
- 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"