Brewer's: Accolade

(3 syl.).

The touch of a sword on the shoulder in the ceremony of conferring knighthood; originally an embrace or touch by the hand on the neck. (Latin, ad collum, on the neck.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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