Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Apanage \Ap"an*age\, n.
   Same as {Appanage}.

Source : WordNet®

apanage
     n 1: 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" [syn: {appanage}]
     2: 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" [syn: {appanage}]