Accolade Totally Explained

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In the Middle Ages, the accolade was the central act in the rite-of-passage ceremonies conferring knighthood.

Ceremony

The accolade is a ceremony to confer knighthood that may take many forms including, for example, the tapping of the flat side of a sword on the shoulders of a candidate or an embrace about the neck

Promotion steps

The process of becoming a knight generally included these stages:

Page — A child started training at about the age of seven or eight, learning obedience, manners, and other skills. Accolade is akin to "dubbing" or "" Clergy receiving a knighthood are not dubbed. The use of a sword in this kind of a ceremony is believed to be inappropriate.
From about 1852, the meaning of "accolade" was extended to mean "praise" or "award" or "honor."

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