accolade: [17] Accolade goes back to an assumed Vulgar Latin verb *accollāre, meaning ‘put one’s arms round someone’s neck’ (collum is Latin for ‘neck’, and is the source of English collar). It put in its first recorded appearance in the Provençal noun acolada, which was borrowed into French as accolade and thence made its way into English. A memory of the original literal meaning is preserved in the use of accolade to refer to the ceremonial striking of a sword on a new knight’s shoulders; the main current sense ‘congratulatory expression of approval’ is a later development. => collar
accolade (n.)
1620s, from French accolade (16c.), from Provençal acolada or Italian accollata, ultimately from noun use of a fem. past participle from Vulgar Latin *accollare "to embrace around the neck," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + collum "neck" (see collar (n.)).
The original sense is of an embrace about the neck or the tapping of a sword on the shoulders to confer knighthood. Extended meaning "praise, award" is from 1852. Also see -ade. Earlier was accoll (mid-14c.), from Old French acolee "an embrace, kiss, especially that given to a new-made knight," from verb acoler. The French noun in the 16c. was transformed to accolade, with the foreign suffix.
实用例句
1. Four restaurants have been awarded the highest accolade of a three - star rating .
四家餐馆获授予 三星级 餐馆的最高荣誉称号.
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2. Ari Hart recently received the accolade of being represented in the Museum of Modern Art.
阿里·哈特的作品最近有幸获选在现代艺术馆展出。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The Nobel prize has become the ultimate accolade in the sciences.
诺贝尔奖已成为科学界的最高荣誉。
来自辞典例句
4. Strangely, the yen may be the more deserving of that accolade.
奇怪的是, 日元或许更配得上这个荣誉称号.
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5. Being better than China Mobile is not a great accolade, of course.
