apanage
    n 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" [syn: appanage, apanage]
    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" [syn: appanage, apanage]

Apanage \Ap"an*age\, n.
   Same as Appanage.
   [1913 Webster]