LekhoriLekhoriAn expression of approval; praise.
A special acknowledgment; an award.
This film is likely to pick up major accolades.
An embrace of greeting or salutation.
[…] for the tears stood in the old gentleman's eyes, when, having first shaken Edward heartily by the hand in the English fashion, he embraced him a-la-mode Françoise, and kissed him on both sides of the face; while the hardness of his gripe, and the quantity of Scotch snuff which his accolade communicated, called corresponding drops of moisture to the eyes of his guest.
To embrace or kiss in salutation.
To confer a knighthood on.
To confer praise or awards on.
First use appears c. 1591 in the publications of Thomas Lodge, borrowed from French accolade, from Occitan acolada (“an embrace”), from acolar (“to embrace”), from Italian accollato, from Vulgar Latin...
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an accoladed novel