— 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; a ( c ) colée embrace (with -ade -ADE 1 ), n. use of fem. ptp. of a ( c ) coler, OF v. deriv. of col neck (see COLLAR) with a- A- 5 ]