Crossword clues for accolade
accolade
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accolade \Ac`co*lade"\ ([a^]k`k[-o]*l[=a]d" or [a^]k`k[-o]*l[.a]d"; 277), n. [F. accolade, It. accolata, fr. accollare to embrace; L. ad + collum neck.]
A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting of an embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.
(Mus.) A brace used to join two or more staves.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from French accolade (16c.), from Provençal acolada or Italian accollata, ultimately from noun use of a fem. past participle from Vulgar Latin *accollare "to embrace around the neck," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + collum "neck" (see collar (n.)).\n
\nThe 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. Also see -ade. Earlier was accoll (mid-14c.), from Old French acolee "an embrace, kiss, especially that given to a new-made knight," from verb acoler. The French noun in the 16c. was transformed to accolade, with the foreign suffix.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An expression of approval; praise. 2 A special acknowledgment; an award. 3 An embrace of greeting or salutation. 4 (context historical English) 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. 5 (context music English) A brace used to join two or more staves. 6 (context US military English) 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. 7 (context architecture English) 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. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To embrace or kiss in salutation. 2 (context transitive historical English) To confer a knighthood on. 3 (context transitive English) To confer praise or awards on.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Accolade, Inc. was an American video game developer and publisher of the 1980s and 1990s. Headquartered in San Jose, California, it was founded in 1984 by Alan Miller and Bob Whitehead after leaving another game developer and publisher they had founded, Activision.
The accolade (also known as dubbing or adoubement) was the central act in the rite of passage ceremonies conferring knighthood in the Middle Ages. From about 1852, the term accolade was used much more generally to mean "praise" or "award" or "honor."
Accolade is a ceremony to confer knighthood.
Accolade may also refer to:
- Accolade (notation), a musical symbol
- Scholastic accolade
- Accolade (video game company)
- Accolade (play), by Emlyn Williams
- Curly braces {...}
Accolade is a 1950 play by the Welsh playwright Emlyn Williams. Accolade was first presented in London by H. M. Tennent Ltd, in association with Leland Hayward and Joshua Logan, at the Aldwych Theatre, on September 7, 1950, with Emlyn Williams as Will Trenting and a cast including Diana Churchill, Anthony Nicholls, Dora Bryan and Noel Willman. It was revived in 2011 at the Finborough Theatre and the cast included Graham Seed, Aden Gillett and Saskia Wickham
Usage examples of "accolade".
Hisser won not-guilty-by-reason-of-entertaining-legal-defense verdicts for the most savage, unremorseful, bloody-minded, and ill-dressed murderers of its time, winning kudos, plaudits, accolades, and prize Cadi1lacs from the wards committee of the hoity-toity American Bar Association.
The University of Alpha Centauri bestowed the prestigious accolade aperiodically, whenever its Scientific Advisory Board deemed an achievement worthy of their recognition.
He chose only the hardiest and the best of our ancestors, for only they were worthy of this ultimate accolade.
And I would hope that there will be fine old names among the winners of our major crowns: it should not be left to newcomers to earn accolades as our bravest men!
The years might be many and the legal accolades multiple, but how could he ever forget the careless kindness of a seventeen-year-old cadet toward the cadet his father despised?
But on the other hand he reaped the accolades for being the one to hold out his hand first and make the concessions.
The boys laughed too, and taking her lavish accolades to heart, they had gone on playing relentlessly all that summer, much to the horror of the girls.
They spent the majority of their time animatedly discussing the activities of a group of other humans whose lives were spent running into each other at high speed while chasing a small ball in return for vociferous accolades and enormous sums of money offered up by their fellow citizens.
He was used to being confronted with accolades, not criticism and skepticism.
I presume the paper hesitates to bestow that accolade on mere science fiction.
There's a difference between the accolades of the masses and the approval of those who really know.
In 1990, the book was adapted for the screen by Donald Westlake, directed by Stephen Frears and superbly acted by Anjelica Huston, John Cusack and Annette Bening to earn the accolade of cult movie.
And now, in this very afternoon, my glories had been climaxed in the chamber of the Council of Captains, in which had taken place the formal presentations and accountings of the victory and its pluder, in which had taken place the commendation of the Council for mh deeds and the awardings of its most coveted accolade, that of worthy captain of Port Kar.
And now, in this very afternoon, my glories had been climaxed in the chamber of the Council of Captains, in which had taken place the formal presentations and accountings of the victory and its plunder, in which had taken place the commendation of the Council for my deeds and the awardings of its most coveted accolade, that of worthy captain of Port Kar.
Newspaper reproductions of them had looked out from under headlines that would have been dismissed as a pulp writer's fantasy before the man whom they accoladed as the Robin Hood of modern crime arrived to make them real.