| accolade | (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: award, honor, honour, laurels |
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| ballade | (noun) a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy | - |
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| blade | (noun) the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge | - |
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| (noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: brand, steel, sword |
| (noun) flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water | Synonyms: vane |
| (noun) the part of the skate that slides on the ice | - |
| (noun) a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue) | - |
| (noun) a cut of beef from the shoulder blade | - |
| (noun) something long and thin resembling a blade of grass | - |
| (noun) a dashing young man | - |
| (noun) especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole | Synonyms: leaf blade |
| clade | (noun) a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor | - |
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| defilade | (noun) the arrangement of defensive fortifications to protect against enemy fire | - |
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| enfilade | (noun) gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation | Synonyms: enfilade fire |
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| escalade | (noun) an act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification) | - |
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| fusillade | (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: burst, salvo, volley |
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| glade | (noun) a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area | Synonyms: clearing |
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| marmalade | (noun) a preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits | - |
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| phylloclade | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladode, cladophyll, phylloclad |
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| razorblade | (noun) a blade that has very sharp edge | - |
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| roulade | (noun) (music) an elaborate run of several notes sung to one syllable | - |
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| (noun) a dish consisting of a slice of meat that is rolled around a filling and cooked | - |
| salade | (noun) a light medieval helmet with a slit for vision | Synonyms: sallet |
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| switchblade | (noun) a pocketknife with a blade that springs open at the press of a button | Synonyms: flick-knife, flick knife, switchblade knife |
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| twayblade | (noun) orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia | Synonyms: Listera ovata |
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| (noun) an orchid of the genus Liparis having a pair of leaves | - |