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accolade
(ækəʊˈleɪd, akəʊˈlɑːd; now usu. ˈækəʊleɪd)
[a. mod.Fr. accolade, ad. It. accollata, n. f. pa. pple. of accollare to embrace about the neck; see accoll, and -ade. Introduced into Fr. in 16th c. superseding the OFr. cogn. acolée; it has similarly superseded the earlier acolee in Eng.]
1. a. Properly, an embrace or clasping about the neck; technical name of the salutation marking the bestowal of knighthood, applied at different times to an embrace, a kiss, and a slap on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.[Not in Cotgrave 1611 who has Accollade (Fr.) a colling, clipping, imbracing about the necke; Hence, the dubbing of a Knight, or the ceremony used therein.] 1623Favine Theat. Honour i. vi. 51 Giuing him also the Accollade, that is to say, Kissing him. 1706Phillips, Accollade, clipping and colling, embracing about the Neck. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Antiquaries are not agreed, wherein the Accolade properly consisted. 1817Scott Wav. I. x. 131 The quantities of Scotch snuff which his accolade communicated. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos I. xvi. 122. (1877) Henry conferred on him the accolade, or sword blow, which was the chief part of the ceremony. 1858Wiseman Last Four Popes 511 Could he [the Pope] receive him [Czar Nicholas] with a bland smile and insincere accollade?
b. fig. A supreme honour; a mark of approval or admiration; a bestowal of praise, a plaudit; an acknowledgement of merit.
1852P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 250, I would knight you on the spot, But, really, I'm afraid, my sword's forgot. However, take my verbal accolade! 1906‘O. Henry’ in Munsey's Mag. Aug. 559/2 All this meant that Curly had won his spurs, that he was receiving the puncher's accolade. 1940W. Faulkner Hamlet ii. ii. 131 The impotent youths who..had conferred upon them likewise blindly and unearned the accolade of success. 1955E. Blishen Roaring Boys i. 18 Improbable accolades. ‘Good old sir!’ ‘You're a sport, sir!’ 1961M. Beadle These Ruins are Inhabited (1963) ix. 113 A Nobel Prize is the top accolade a scientist can receive. 1974‘J. Herriot’ Vet in Harness xii. 89 Once the long process had been completed and the last piece of marzipan and icing applied she dearly loved to have the accolade from an expert. 1984Ann. Rep. Racal Electronics PLC 7/1 The highest accolade in the engineering profession—election to the Fellowship of Engineering—was bestowed in April 1984 on Geoffrey Lomer.
2. Music. A vertical line or brace, used to couple together two or more staves. (Sometimes confined to a straight thick line so used, as distinguished from a brace or double curve; but in mod.Fr. accollade = the brace or double curve {horizb}, used not merely in music but in ordinary printing, algebra, classification, etc.)
1882Rockstro in Grove Dict. Mus. s.v. Score, In Scores..the Staves are united, at the beginning of every page, either by a Brace, or by a thick line, drawn, like a bar, across the whole, and called the Accolade. |