The meaning of Apanages
Apanages – definition
nounA provision made for the maintenance of the younger children of kings and princes, consisting of a gift of land, an official position, or money.
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The west saxon kings used kent as a sort of appanage to be ruled as subkingdoms by west saxon princ…
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Word origin
early 17th century: from French, based on medieval Latin appanare ‘provide with the means of subsistence’, from ad- ‘to’ + panis ‘bread’.
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