(n.) A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.
(n.) A brace used to join two or more staves.
Example Sentences:
(1) The work, The Spear, by Brett Murray, unleashed a brouhaha that has hogged headlines for more than a week in South Africa and earned that inexhaustible accolade "painting-gate".
(2) And that’s very unusual, for a so-called serious composer, to write a piece that people like so much, and they don’t care who it’s by.” Anonymity in your own lifetime – the ultimate accolade for a contemporary classical composer.
(3) But Y Polyn does win accolades for robust country cooking and down-at-home style.
(4) Their accolade came on the day they were announced as the headline act at the 2012 Olympics closing celebration concert in Hyde Park.
(5) The NFU Mutual, which won the accolade of being Which?
(6) For whatever accolades are dished out, the hard graft of science continues.
(7) Admittedly the winner was Bradley Wiggins, which somewhat takes the shine off the accolade.
(8) In spite of his life seeming superficially great, in spite of all the praise and accolades, in spite of all the loving friends and family, there is a predominant voice in the mind of an addict that supersedes all reason and that voice wants you dead.
(9) John Makumbe, a politics professor at the University of Zimbabwe, said of Mugabe's accolade: "I think it's ridiculous because Zimbabwe is one of the countries least used by tourists.
(10) It's probably just a fire in one of the townships.” Following Torino, Seoul and Helsinki, Cape Town is the fourth city to be awarded the title of World Design Capital, an accolade bestowed by the Montreal-based International Council for Societies of Industrial Design , which charges a hefty fee to honour a different city with its logo each year.
(11) Because the Trail Blazers didn't make many major moves during the offseason, they started the season as an afterthought in the incredibly competitive Western Conference and their early success provoked more skepticism than accolades.
(12) After scoring four number ones with her debut album, Gaga was lauded as the new queen of pop with the industry queuing to lay accolades at her feet.
(13) The first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded in 1901, and its receipt is widely regarded as one of the highest accolades in science.
(14) Notable Mercury-friendly accolades: They were nonimated for a Mercury back in 2005 (and lost out admirably to the mighty I Am a Bird Now by Antony and the Johnsons).
(15) In Pakistan , news of the Nobel prize has led to an outpouring of accolades from official figures, led by the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, who called her “the pride of Pakistan”.
(16) London isn’t the best city for hostels ( that accolade goes to Lisbon ) but that’s improving too with Clink , Generator , Wombats and the good ol’ YHA all offering family rooms.
(17) There have been accolades, including "publisher of the year" in May, but one thing that has not changed, despite Barnsley's best efforts, is HarperCollins's UK ranking – in fourth position behind Penguin, Random House and Hachette.
(18) But those of us who were lucky enough to have spent five minutes with him – or more – know that he never set out to attain any of these high accolades.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Zaha Hadid walks out of a BBC Radio 4 Today programme interview Still, her projects have nonetheless been showered with accolades, twice receiving the Stirling prize – for the MAXXI museum in Rome and the Evelyn Grace academy school in Brixton – and she was the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker prize more than a decade ago, making RIBA’s choice now seem a little like it is trying to catch up.
(20) His rivals weren't even born when he last won the accolade in 1984, but David Bowie saw experience triumph over youth as he was crowned best British male at the Brit awards.
Salutation
Definition:
(n.) The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good will or courtesy; also, that which is uttered or done in saluting or greeting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her arm is outstretched in a strong, certain Nazi salute.
(2) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
(3) The August 2010 incident occurred two months after the Swiss federal council of seven ministers, including the president, decided not to ban the Nazi salute and swastika symbol in Switzerland .
(4) The French NBA star was pictured giving the “quenelle”, which has been described as a “reverse Nazi salute”, with its originator, the French comedian Dieudonné M'bala M'bala.
(5) The simplest answer is that she had no choice but to give the Nazi salute that day.
(6) US president Barack Obama saluted the late king’s commitment to close US – Saudi ties and offered condolences.
(7) They marched to the police roadblock, and performed a 21-gun salute for a fallen veteran and a prayer ceremony on the bridge.
(8) She unabashedly referenced the Black Panthers, and made Black Power salutes, all while asserting her own cultural and ethnic identity.
(9) Former president Joyce Banda published a blistering press release in 2013 saying the singer “wants Malawi to be forever chained to the obligation of gratitude” for adopting children from the country, and excoriating her for expecting the government to roll out “a red carpet and blast the 21-gun salute” in honour of her visits.
(10) "Shave your beard if you're brown, and you best salute the crown, or they'll do you like Brazilians and shoot your arse down."
(11) But proceedings quickly descended into farce, with the defendants' legal team chanting "the people demand the return of the president" and flashing a four-fingered "Rabaa" salute that has become a calling-card for Morsi supporters.
(12) Following the Last Post, wreaths will be laid and the Act of Remembrance will finish with a royal salute.
(13) For anyone visiting the Emerald Isle it will be hard to miss the centenary salutes throughout the year.
(14) They flew back late Tuesday night ahead of a formal welcome on Wednesday morning with a 19-gun salute on the South Lawn of the White House, the grandest reception for any world leader in Washington this year.
(15) One such salute, repeated on a British football pitch by a friend of Dieudonné, the West Bromwich Albion striker Nicolas Anelka , has had the footballer charged by the Football Association.
(16) With Connor Wickham’s late volleyed goal offering Sunderland no consolation, Pardew assumed centre stage at the final whistle, striding on to the pitch and saluting Palace’s rightly ecstatic travelling support.
(17) "In 1938 the Aston Villa side, touring Germany, famously declined to give a Nazi salute (unlike the England side the day before!
(18) Fang's visit to Washington was heralded with a rare full military honours ceremony on the Pentagon's parade field, complete with a US navy band, formations of troops from all of the services and a 19-gun salute.
(19) In contrast, it is highly unlikely China's leader could find fault with the welcome laid out by the Obama administration: a private White House dinner tonight to be followed later in the week by a full state banquet, a 21-gun salute and all the pomp and circumstance of a review of the troops.
(20) MIA could be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars following her notorious middle-finger salute at Sunday's Super Bowl .