accolade: Meaning and Definition of

ac•co•lade

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. a brace joining several staves.
1. an archivolt or hood molding having more or less the form of an ogee arch.
2. a decoration having more or less the form of an ogee arch, cut into a lintel or flat arch.