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n. - A grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family; Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life.

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  • In those African nations where they have already been introduced, they remain the apanage of a small, privileged, mostly urban elite.
  • No further hesitation was thereafter possible for the ruler of Gruyère, who was thus compelled to take sides against the duchess if he wished to preserve his country from...
  • In consequence of this perfection, gourmandise is the exclusive apanage of man.
  • Instead of the possession of these lands being regarded as the apanage of the spiritual office, the acceptance of episcopal consecration was looked upon as the special...
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