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ACCOLADE (from Ital. accolata, derived from Lat. collum, the neck)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 121 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: A10-ADA
ACCOLADE (from Ital. accolata, derived from Lat. collum, the neck) , a ceremony anciently used in conferring
knighthood
 ; but whether it was an actual embrace (according to the use of the modern French word accolade), or a slight blow on the neck or cheek, is not agreed. Both these customs appear to be of
great
  antiquity. Gregory of Tours writes that the early kings of France, in conferring the gilt
shoulder
 -belt, kissed the knights on the left cheek; and William the Conqueror is said to have made use of the blow in conferring the honour of
knighthood
  on his son
Henry
 . At first it was given with the naked fist, a veritable box on the ear, but for this was substituted a gentle stroke with the flat of the sword on the side of the neck, or on either
shoulder
  as well. In
Great
  Britain the sovereign, in conferring knighthood, still employs this latter form of accolade.
" Accolade " is also a technical term in music-printing for a sort of brace joining
separate
  staves; and in architecture it denotes a form of decoration on doors and windows.


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