Purtenance

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Purtenance \Pur"te*nance\, n. [Abbrev. fr. appurtenance.]
     That which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the heard,
     liver, and lungs of an animal. [Obs.] " The purtenaunces of
     purgatory." --Piers Plowman.
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           Roast [it] with fire, his head with his legs, and with
           the purtenance [Rev. Ver., inwards] thereof. --Ex. xii.
                                                    9.
     [1913 Webster] Purulence