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Accolade   /ˈækəlˌeɪd/   Listen
noun
Accolade  n.  
1.
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.
2.
(Mus.) A brace used to join two or more staves.





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"Accolade" Quotes from Famous Books



... conferred in two ways. A knight-banneret was one created on the field of battle. An ordinary knight was required to be of good family and of a suitable age, and the accolade was given him after a night's fasting and watching in some church. Other, but less important ceremonies were also observed. This latter course was necessarily the one chosen by Richard. At five o'clock on the ...
— Mistress Margery • Emily Sarah Holt
... spurs and earn the royal accolade because the blood of dragons stains their hands. From mighty combat with these terrors they come victorious to their king's reward. And some there be sore scarred with conquest of the giants that ever prey upon the borders of our ...
— The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation • Annie Fellows Johnston
... you no thanks, Colin," said Frank, "for having broached my secret: but I have lost nothing after all. There is still an order of knighthood in which I may win my spurs, even though her majesty refuse me the accolade." ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley
... was in England, and the University of Cambridge made him Master of Arts. The sword used by the king at the time he gave the accolade is still ...
— Pictures Every Child Should Know • Dolores Bacon
... Spain. 'He hath demanded Drake's head of me,' she laughed aloud, 'and here I have a gilded sword to strike it off.' With that she bade Drake kneel. Then, handing the sword to Marchaumont, the special envoy of her French suitor, Francis of Anjou, she ordered him to give the accolade. This done, she pronounced the formula of immemorial fame: I bid thee ...
— Elizabethan Sea Dogs • William Wood


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