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apanage means: a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family

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apanage

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈæpənɪd͡ʒ/Part of speech nounSorted aaaegnpStarts with AEnds with E0 clues

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a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family

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

“Well, prince, Genoa and Lucca are now nothing more than the apanages, than the private property of the Bonaparte family.”
“they suspected that Peter II was only waiting till he had saved enough of his apanage to run away to some more civilized country.”

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