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means A round, often ornate metal disc — worn as jewelry, awarded as a prize, or mounted as a decorative panel — that displays an image, emblem, or inscription.
from From French 'médaillon,' itself borrowed from Italian 'medaglione' — a 'large medal,' the augmentative of 'medaglia.' That root likely traces back through Vulgar Latin to 'metallum,' the Latin word for metal (and the ultimate source of 'medal' too). So a medallion is, at its heart, just a generously oversized piece of stamped metal — the suffix '-one' in Italian inflating an ordinary medal into something grand enough to demand a chain.
- taxi gold
- NYC cab medallions once cost over a million dollars
- hip-hop crown
- oversized medallions became 1980s rap power symbols
- olympic origin
- Olympic medals descend from ancient olive-leaf crowns
- word root
- named for medium, the middle of a coin
- culinary cousin
- medallions also means round, prized cuts of meat
presidential medal of freedom — highest civilian award in the united states, created 1963
olympic gold medallion — awarded to first-place finishers at summer and winter olympics since 1896