accolade

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an award or expression of praise

   The novel earned every accolade the critics could bestow.

From French accolade ('embrace'), from Provençal acolada, from Vulgar Latin accollāre ('to embrace about the neck'), from Latin ad- ('to') + collum ('neck'). Originally the ceremonial embrace or tap on the shoulder used to confer knighthood.

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