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noun

Exclusive privilege or right, obtained or exercise because of rank or office, as in prerogatives of a member of Congress.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

—Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel McCall’s, November 1965

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