Accolade

(n.) A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

(n.) A brace used to join two or more staves.

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• This country vendor of hair was to become one of the world’s great inventors, and to kneel before his sovereign for the accolade that was to make him knight. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.

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