<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>any award, honor, or laudatory notice: The play received accolades from the press.</li><li>a light touch on the shoulder with the flat side of the sword or formerly by an embrace, done in the ceremony of conferring knighthood.</li><li>the ceremony itself.</li><li>Music: a brace joining several staves.</li><li>Architecture: an archivolt or hood molding having more or less the form of an ogee arch.</li><li>a decoration having more or less the form of an ogee arch, cut into a lintel or flat arch.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>