Accolade 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.

Accolade n. : A brace used to join two or more staves.

Example:
Sidney Crosby managed to snag one last Accolade before 2007 wound down. What was he named by Canadian Press?

Taxonomy
knight, ceremony, 05-18, The Accolade, sword, neck, shoulder, knighthood, 2008-05-19, The Medieval Knight, free encyclopedia, embrace, left shoulder, coming-of-age ceremony, Knighting Ceremony, tapping, flat side, monarch.

Defination from the web:
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 ... Accolade was first used in 1611 and is French, from the Occitan acolada. ... Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accolade" ...