OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 307

accolade

/ˈæk.əˌleɪd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
elogio • espaldarazo • loor
An expression of approval; praise.
galardón
A special acknowledgment; an award.
Rooney led Manchester United up the Wembley steps to collect the FA Cup and add a missing medal to his collection - a richly deserved accolade.
This film is likely to pick up major accolades.
acolada • espaldarazo
A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword.
As he had already told him, he said, there was no chapel in the castle, nor was it needed for what remained to be done, for, as he understood the ceremonial of the order, the whole…
“Rise, Sir Miles Hendon, Knight,” said the King, gravely—giving the accolade with Hendon’s sword—“rise, and seat thyself. Thy petition is granted. Whilst England remains, and the c…
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