éloge noun. [elɔ:ʒ] Pl. pronounced same. M16.
[French, from Latin elogium short saying or epitaph, altered from Greek elegeia ELEGY: app. confused with EULOGIUM, EULOGY.]
1. A commendation; an encomium. M16-E19.

2. A discourse in honour of a deceased person; esp. that pronounced on a member of the French Academy by his successor. E18.

► Treated as alien in recent use, but formerly naturalized.

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