appanage
英 ['æp(ə)nɪdʒ]
美['æpənɪdʒ]
- n. （王、候等的）封地，封禄
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"