accolé /ˈækəleɪ/adjective 2noun 1forms 1 adjective2 •Joined or placed side by side (with); (of a pair of shields) displayed side by side and often leaning on or towards each other.However, the reverse-gilt glass panel, decorated with three accolé coats of arms and the date 1571, applied over the cartouche on the front of the ewer, ... — 2012 •Crescent-shaped.Sometimes the trophozoites are seen as crescent-shaped masses at the periphery of the erythrocyte (accolé forms ). — 2005 noun1 •A blow (typically with the flat of a sword, though historically sometimes with a fist, etc.) given in the ceremony conferring knighthood. formsaccolés
