Apanage

In consequence of this perfection, gourmandise is the exclusive apanage of man. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In those African nations where they have already been introduced, they remain the apanage of a small, privileged, mostly urban elite. ❋ Unknown (1995)

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 dismemberment and the cruel and ferocious devastation which the Confederates were now inflicting upon the beautiful country of Romand Switzerland, and particularly upon the country of Vaud, the apanage of Duke Charles 'maréchal, Count Romont. ❋ Mrs. Reginald De Koven (N/A)

Thus the kings in granting a duchy or countship as an apanage to their brothers or sons used the phrase _in comitatum et baroniam_. ❋ Various (N/A)

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 condition or service upon which these lands were held from the king. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

"D'you think she'll remain your apanage now?" he asked, with a hint of smiling sarcasm that could not hurt her. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)

It is very noble in the Duc de Nemours to have thus given up his _apanage_; [34] I am sorry there were such difficulties about it. ❋ Queen Of Great Britain Victoria (1860)

This breed has been preserved in its purity by the successive Dukes of Newcastle, and may be considered as an aristocratic apanage to their country seats. ❋ Edward Jesse (1824)

-- all his doubts and perplexities resolved themselves at once, as by some enchantment, into a lovely, unexpected chord of extreme simplicity; and Martia was gently but firmly put aside, and the divine Julia quietly relegated to the gilded throne which was her fit and proper apanage. ❋ George Du Maurier (1865)

(N.E.D.).] {209} Génin (_Lexique de la Langue de Molière_, p. 367) says well: “En augmentant le nombre des mots, il a fallu restreindre leur signification, et faire aux nouveaux un apanage aux dépens des anciens”. ❋ Richard Chenevix Trench (1846)