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acolee
† acolee Obs. [a. OFr. acolee embrace, hug; properly pa. pple. of acoler: see accoll.] The embrace, or other greeting, by which knighthood was conferred: the earlier equivalent of accolade.c 1450 Merlin xxi. 374 The kynge Arthur yaf hym the acolee, and bad god make hym a gode knyght. Oxford English Dictionary
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accolade
accolade (ækəʊˈleɪd, akəʊˈlɑːd; now usu. ˈækəʊleɪd) [a. mod.Fr. accolade, ad. It. accollata, n. f. pa. pple. of accollare to embrace about the neck; see accoll, and -ade. Introduced into Fr. in 16th c. superseding the OFr. cogn. acolée; it has similarly superseded the earlier acolee in Eng.] 1. a. P... Oxford English Dictionary
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-ade
-ade, suffix of ns. 1. a. Fr. -ade, ad. Pr., Sp. or Pg. -ada or It. -ata:—L. -āta, subst. use of fem. of pa. pple., as in pop. L. strāta (sc. via) a paved way, a ‘street.’ The native Fr. form of this suff. is -ée, as in entrée, acolée; -ade appeared first in the adaptation of Proven{cced}al words in... Oxford English Dictionary
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