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Accolade is a French word adopted in English, originally meaning 'to Embrace around the neck', soon extended to similar friendly gestures:

Accolade (knighthood) , a ceremony formally used in conferring knighthood, consisting of a slight blow to the shoulders with the flat of a blade.

---hence, metophorically, an ''accolade'' is praise for an achievement.

an accolade is also, again as in French, a single-pen stroke sign joining two or more items, notably used in musical notation, as a Brace used to join two or more Stave s.

Accolade , a Video Game Developer and Publisher of the 1980s and 1990s .