Accolade

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Accolade, a French word adopted in English, originally meaning 'to embrace around the neck', soon extended to similar friendly gestures, may mean :

Accolade (knighthood), a ceremony formally used in conferring knighthood, consisting of a slight blow to the shoulders with the flat of a blade.
*hence, metophorically, an accolade is Praise for an achievement.
an accolade is also, again as in French, a single-pen stroke sign joining two or more items, notably used in musical notation, as a brace used to join two or more staves.
Accolade (video game publisher), a video game developer active in the 1980s and 1990s.
Accolade, The body kit company.

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