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- noun Plural form of
apanage .
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Examples
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We drove to see the Castle of Montafilant, one of the apanages of the
Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser
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It is true that two of the professions, the {493} higher offices in army and church, became apanages of the nobility, and the other liberal vocations were almost as completely monopolized by the children of the moneyed middle class; nevertheless it is significant that there were new roads by which men might rise.
The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910
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The King directed his ministers to join in some way the question of the apanages of the House of Orleans with the disposition of his own civil list.
The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X Arthur L��on Imbert de Saint-Amand 1867
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At Kief the system of independent apanages prevailed.
The Empire of Russia 1841
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_apanages_ of the House of Orleans; and yet sooner or later all this property will revert to the nation.
France in the Nineteenth Century Elizabeth Latimer 1863
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