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" 同义词:apanage,
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" 同义词:apanage,
An appanage or apanage (pronounced ) or () is the grant of an estate, titles, offices, or other things of value to the younger male children of a sovereign, who would otherwise have no inheritance under the system of primogeniture. It was common in much of Europe.
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As if loveliness were not the special prerogative of woman - her legitimate appanage and heritage 性的特权她合法的属性与遗传物!