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accolade
1. An expression of approval; praise; any award, honor, or laudatory notice: "The novel received accolades from various reviewers."
2. A special acknowledgment; an award.
3. A ceremonial embrace, as of greeting or salutation.
4. Ceremonial bestowal of knighthood; 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.
5. Etymology: from French, acolada from Vulgar Latin accollare, from Latin ad-, "to" plus collum, "neck".
2. A special acknowledgment; an award.
3. A ceremonial embrace, as of greeting or salutation.
4. Ceremonial bestowal of knighthood; 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.
5. Etymology: from French, acolada from Vulgar Latin accollare, from Latin ad-, "to" plus collum, "neck".
The original sense is of an embrace about the neck or the tapping of a sword on the shoulders to confer knighthood. Extended meaning "praise, award" is from 1852.