Noun: apanage
| Singular | apanage |
| Plural | apanages |
Sample Sentences
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Well, prince, Genoa and Lucca are now nothing more than the apanages, than the private property of the Bonaparte family. [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:]
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they suspected that Peter II was only waiting till he had saved enough of his apanage to run away to some more civilized country. [1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 1046:]
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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. [1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London, New York: Henry Holt and Company:]
Nouns inflected like apanage
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French apanage, from Latin *appanare, adpanare (“to give bread”), from pānis (“bread”). See: French Nouns '
apanage'.