accolade vs wall knot

accolade

noun
  • A brace used to join two or more staves. 

  • An embrace of greeting or salutation. 

  • An expression of approval; praise. 

  • An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its outer extremity and convex toward the point at which it meets the other. 

  • Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by military personnel or civilians serving the US armed forces who died or were wounded in action between 1917 and 1918, or who died in service between 1941 and 1947, or died of wounds received in Korea between June 27, 1950 and July 27, 1954. 

  • Synonym of curly bracket 

  • A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword. 

  • A special acknowledgment; an award. 

verb
  • To embrace or kiss in salutation. 

  • To confer praise or awards on. 

  • To confer a knighthood on. 

wall knot

noun
  • A knot made by unlaying the strands of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand, then passing the second over the end of the first, and the third over the end of the second and through the bight of the first. 

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