accolade
English

Painting of an accolade (salutation marking the conferring of knighthood).
Etymology
- First attested in the 1620s.
- (award, praise): First attested in 1852.
- Borrowed from French accolade, from Occitan acolada (“an embrace”), from Occitan acolar (“to embrace”), from Italian accollato, from Vulgar Latin accolāre (“to hug around the neck”), from Latin ad- + collum (“neck”) (English collar).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /ˈæk.ə.ˌleɪd/, /ˌæk.ə.ˈlɑd/
Noun
accolade (plural accolades)
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Accolade, early 16th century (France).
- An expression of approval; praise.
- A special acknowledgment; an award.
- An embrace of greeting or salutation.
- (historical) A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword.
- (music) A brace used to join two or more staves.
- (US, military) Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by personnel who died or were wounded in action between 1917 and 1918, or who died in service between 1941 and 1947, or died of wounds received in Korea between June 27, 1950 and July 27, 1954. Service of civilians who died overseas or as a result of injury or disease contracted while serving in a civilian capacity with the United States Armed Forces during the dates and/or in areas prescribed is in like manner recognized.
- (architecture) An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its outer extremity and convex toward the point at which it meets the other. Such accolades are either plain or adorned with rich moldings, and are a frequent motive of decoration on the lintels of doors and windows of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, especially in secular architecture.
- Synonym of curly bracket
Synonyms
- (expression of approval or praise): panegyric
Related terms
Translations
an expression of approval; praise
a special acknowledgment; an award
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a salutation marking the conferring of knighthood
(music) a brace used to join two or more staves
(American military) written presidential certificate
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References
Verb
accolade (third-person singular simple present accolades, present participle accolading, simple past and past participle accoladed)
- (transitive) To embrace or kiss in salutation.
- (transitive, historical) To confer a knighthood on.
- (transitive) To confer praise or awards on.
- an accoladed novel
Translations
To embrace or kiss
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To confer a knighthood on
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To confer a praise or an award on
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Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑkoːˈlaːdə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ac‧co‧la‧de
Noun
accolade f (plural accolades, diminutive accoladetje n)
- (punctuations) brace, curly bracket ({ })
- anything that resembles the above
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.kɔ.lad/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Homophone: accolades
- Hyphenation: a‧cco‧lade
Synonyms
- (embrace): embrassade
Descendants
- → German: Akkolade
Verb
accolade
- first-person singular present indicative of accolader
- third-person singular present indicative of accolader
- first-person singular present subjunctive of accolader
- third-person singular present subjunctive of accolader
- second-person singular imperative of accolader
Further reading
- “accolade” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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