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In response to
"and in the Oxford dictionary, so... -- nm"
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Reagen
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Fortunately, I have full access to OED. So here's the entry.
Posted by
Mop (aka Rburriel)
Feb 4 '16, 21:10
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What you're referring to is the musical notation (entry 2 below) listed as "rare" and more commonly referred to as a "brace". So, in that sense, absolutely, an "accolade" is a correct word for that mark, but not the common word.
accolade, n.
Pronunciation: Brit. accolade#_gb_1.mp3 /ˈakəleɪd/ , accolade#_gb_2.mp3 /ˌakəˈleɪd/ , U.S. accolade#_us_1.mp3 /ˈækəˌleɪd/
Forms: 15– accolade, 16–18 accollade.
Frequency (in current use):
Etymology: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French accolade.
< Middle French, French accolade action of embracing (1532), salutation marking the bestowal of knighthood (early 17th cent. or earlier), (in music) vertical line or brace coupling together two or more staves (1768), alteration (after words in -ade -ade suffix) of Middle French accolee action of embracing, salutation marking the bestowal of knighthood (13th cent. in Old French) < accoler accoll v. + -ee -y suffix5. Compare Italian accollata (20th cent.). Compare earlier acolee n.
Not in Cotgrave 1611, who glosses the French word thus: ‘A colling, clipping, imbracing about the necke; Hence, the dubbing of a knight, or the ceremonie vsed therein’.
N.E.D. (1884) gives the pronunciation as (ækolēi·d, akolɑ·d) /ækəʊˈleɪd/ , /akəʊˈlɑːd/ . Stress on the first syllable seems to have been first recorded by the Encycl. Dict. (1879), which also gives only the vowel /eɪ/ in the final syllable. Dictionaries continue to give the final syllable with the vowel /ɑ(ː)/ as an alternative until the mid 20th cent.
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a. The salutation marking the bestowal of knighthood, applied by a stroke on the shoulders with the flat of a sword (now the usual form) and in earlier use also simply by an embrace or kiss; an instance of this. Cf. dubbing n.1 1.
1591 T. Lodge Famous Life Duke of Normandy f. 7v, He had with all solemnitie the accolade, and was commanded to kneele downe to receiue the order of Knighthoode.
1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood i. vi. 51 Engirting him with the Baudrick & the Sword of a Knight, giuing him also the Accollade, that is to say, Kissing him.
1672 E. Ashmole Hist. Inst. Order Garter i. §9. 36 Some think this to be the same with the Accollade, or Ceremony of imbracing, which was performed by Charles the Great, who (before his expedition against the Hungarians) Knighted his Son Lewis the debonair, at the City of Ratisbone.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word), Antiquaries are not agreed, wherein the Accolade properly consisted.
1853 C. M. Yonge Cameos xx, in Monthly Packet Feb. 98 Henry conferred on him the accolade, or sword blow, which was the chief part of the ceremony.
1920 B. Reynolds Also Ran 201 She gave him an order as though she threw a bone to a dog. He received it like the accolade of knighthood.
1980 S. B. Frost McGill University 233 Queen Victoria gave him her accolade as Knight Bachelor in 1884.
2006 K. Kurtz Childe Morgan ix. 86 Young Alaric..gave Sir Llion an unabashed hug, once the accolade had been bestowed and the white belt girt around his waist.
b. More generally: an embrace about the neck, a kiss. Now rare.
1654 W. Lower tr. R. de Cerisiers Innocent Lady 117 How many kisses imprinted he upon his mouth, and upon his checks? How many embraces, and accolades think you that he gave him?
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (ed. 6) Accollade, clipping and colling, embracing about the Neck.
1798 C. Smith Young Philosopher IV. 73, I made the best of my way to apologise to her, and..returned with interest the accolade she favoured me with.
1814 Scott Waverley I. x. 131 The quantity of Scotch snuff which his accolade communicated.
1858 N. Wiseman Recoll. Last Four Popes 511 Could he [sc. the Pope] receive him [sc. Czar Nicholas] with a bland smile and insincere accollade?
1920 E. Pound Arnaut Daniel in T.S. Eliot Literary Ess. Ezra Pound (1968) 145 No alloy's in her, that debonaire shall hold my faith and mine obedience till, by her accolade, I am invested.
c. fig. A mark of approval or admiration; a bestowal of praise, a plaudit; an acknowledgement of distinction or merit, an award or privilege which recognizes this.
1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 250, I would knight you on the spot, But, really, I'm afraid, my sword's forgot. However, take my verbal accolade!
1906 ‘O. Henry’ in Munsey's Mag. Aug. 559/2 All this meant that Curly had won his spurs, that he was receiving the puncher's accolade.
1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet ii. ii. 131 The impotent youths who..had conferred upon them likewise blindly and unearned the accolade of success.
1961 M. Beadle These Ruins are Inhabited (1963) ix. 113 A Nobel Prize is the top accolade a scientist can receive.
1974 ‘J. Herriot’ Vet in Harness xii. 89 Once the long process had been completed and the last piece of marzipan and icing applied she dearly loved to have the accolade from an expert.
2000 Opera Now Jan. 18/2 The young mezzo whose accolades include the Royal Philharmonic débutante's prize..sums up the new, relaxed attitude of world-class singers.
2. Music. A vertical line or brace, used to couple together two or more staves. Cf. brace n.2 14. rare.
1817 T. Busby Dict. Music (ed. 4) 5 Accolade, That brace which binds, or includes, all the parts of a score.
1882 W. S. Rockstro in G. Grove Dict. Music at Score, In Scores..the Staves are united, at the beginning of every page, either by a Brace, or by a thick line, drawn, like a bar, across the whole, and called the Accolade.
1950 H. Moldenhauer Duo-pianism iv. 65 Before the accolade (the brace employed to connect two or more staves), the manuscript shows the inscriptions.
2010 B. Fink Psychoanalytic Adventures Inspector Canal 19 The accolade that groups together all the staves that are to be played simultaneously by the various different instruments can't be seen on this page.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011).
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