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ap⋅a⋅nage

  [ap-uh-nij]
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ap⋅pa⋅nage

  [ap-uh-nij]
–noun
1. land or some other source of revenue assigned for the maintenance of a member of the family of a ruling house.
2. whatever belongs rightfully or appropriately to one's rank or station in life.
3. a natural or necessary accompaniment; adjunct.
Also, apanage.

Origin:
1595–1605; < MF, OF apanage, apeinaige, equiv. to apan(er) to endow (a younger son or daughter) with a maintenance (< ML appānāre; ap- ap- 1 + -pānāre, v. deriv. of L pānis bread; cf. OPr apanar to nourish) + -age -age
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ap·a·nage   (āp'ə-nĭj)   
n.  Variant of appanage.
ap·pa·nage also ap·a·nage   (āp'ə-nĭj)   
n.  
  1. A source of revenue, such as land, given by a sovereign for the maintenance of a member of the ruling family.
  2. Something extra offered to or claimed by a party as due; a perquisite: The leaders of the opposition party agreed to accept another government's appanages, and in doing so became an officially paid agency of a foreign power.
  3. A rightful or customary accompaniment or adjunct.

[French apanage, from Old French, from apaner, to make provisions for, possibly from Medieval Latin appānāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin pānis, bread; see pā- in Indo-European roots.]
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Apanage

Ap"an*age\, n. Same as Appanage.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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apanage 
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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