noun, feminine/a.kɔ.lad/plural: accolades
curly bracket (brace); accolade (knights); embrace
Synonyms: embrassade
Inherited from Middle French acolade, from Old French acolee (remade with the suffix -ade), from the verb acoler (< Latin ad- + collum + -āre). Analyzable as ad- + collum + -āta. (embrace): Compare typologically Dutch omhelzing (<<~ hals, cognate via PIE); Serbo-Croatian загрљај (<<~ грло).