accolade

• n. 栄誉; 栄誉授与式; シリアルナンバー; 賞賛.

接頭辞ac-にad-がつく。 語源 col, 首輪をつける, 首輪, 襟と同じ。もともとは騎士が叙任されるときの抱擁の儀式を指す言葉であったが、のちに賞賛を指すようになった。

accolade

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 Proven?al 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.
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accolade (n.)

1620s, from French accolade (16c.), from Proven?al 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.

1. Four restaurants have been awarded the highest accolade of a three-star rating.4つのレストランが3つ星レストランの最高栄誉称号を授与された。

2.Ari Hart recently received the accolade of being represented in the Museum of Modern Art.

アリ?ハートの作品が最近、現代芸術館に展示されている。

3.The Nobel prize has become the ultimate accolade in the sciences.

ノーベル賞は科学界の最高の栄誉となった。

4.Strangely，the yen may be the more deserving of that accolade .

奇妙なことに、円はこの栄誉称号にふさわしいかもしれない。

5.Being better than China Mobile is not a great accolade ，of course.

は中移動よりも少し強く、もちろんそれほど高い賛美ではありません。