APPANAGE
Scrabble letter values: A1P3P3A1N1A1G2E1 = 13
Definition
- noun any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life. — synonyms: apanage
- noun a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family. — synonyms: apanage
Examples
- “for thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use”
- “bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families”
- “1942: they suspected that Peter II was only waiting till he had saved enough of his apanage to run away to some more civilized country. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 1046)”