appanage
美['æpənɪdʒ] 英['æpənɪdʒ]
sp. 的封地
英英释义
Noun- 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"
- 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"