largesse

largesse \lahr-JES, LAHR-jis\, noun:

1. generous bestowal of gifts.
2. the gift or gifts, as of money, so bestowed.
3. Obsolete. generosity; liberality.

They subsisted by the bounty, or largesse, as it was called, of the princes whom they served, which was one great source of expense to those who embarked in war…
-- Sir Walter Scott, "Feudal Chivalry," Tales of a Grandfather, 1831

Largesse, in the form of odds and ends of cold cream and pomatum, and also of hairpins, was freely distributed among the attendants.
-- Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 1870

Largesse comes from the Latin largus meaning "abundant." It shares a root with the word large.