| 单词 | accolade |
| 释义 | accolade —accoladed, adj. /ak"euh layd', -lahd'; ak'euh layd", -lahd"/, n. 1. any award, honor, or laudatory notice: The play received accolades from the press. 2. a light touch on the shoulder with the flat side of the sword or formerly by an embrace, done in the ceremony of conferring knighthood. 3. the ceremony itself. 4. Music. a brace joining several staves. 5. Archit. a. an archivolt or hood molding having more or less the form of an ogee arch. b. a decoration having more or less the form of an ogee arch, cut into a lintel or flat arch. [1615-25; < F, deriv. of a(c)colée embrace (with -ade -ADE1), n. use of fem. ptp. of a(c)coler, OF v. deriv. of col neck (see COLLAR) with a- A-5] |
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