A person who receives an accolade; one being honored or embraced in a ceremonial manner.
From accolade (the ceremony) with the French suffix -ee, indicating the recipient. This follows the pattern of words like 'nominee' or 'employee' where -ee marks the person receiving an action.
While we have 'accolade' and 'accolades,' we never use 'accollee' to refer to the honored person—English simply never adopted this -ee form, leaving it as a theoretical but unused word in dictionaries.
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