Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AP-PUR'TEN-ANCE
AP-PUR'TEN-ANCE, n.
So written for appertenence. [Fr. appartenance. See Appertain.] That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage. Appropriately, such buildings, rights and improvements, as belong to land, are called the appurtenances; as, small buildings are the appurtenances of a mansion.
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