Obs. [a. OFr. acolee embrace, hug; properly pa. pple. of acoler: see ACCOLL.] The embrace, or other greeting, by which knighthood was conferred: the earlier equivalent of ACCOLADE.
c. 1450. Merlin, xxi. 374. The kynge Arthur yaf hym the acolee, and bad god make hym a gode knyght.
