How To Pronounce "Accolade"

noun
any award, honor, or laudatory notice:
The play received accolades from the press.

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.

the ceremony itself.

Music. a brace joining several staves.

Architecture.

an archivolt or hood molding having more or less the form of an ogee arch.

a decoration having more or less the form of an ogee arch, cut into a lintel or flat arch.