any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life
<noun.possession> 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
<noun.possession> bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families
Appanage \Ap"pa*nage\, n. [F. apanage, fr. OF. apaner to nourish, support, fr. LL. apanare to furnish with bread, to provision; L. ad + pains bread.] 1. The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons.
2. A dependency; a dependent territory.
3. That which belongs to one by custom or right; a natural adjunct or accompaniment. ``Wealth . . . the appanage of wit.'' --Swift.