adouber

Une bonne façon de commencer ton discours quand tu seras adoubé.
This is a good way to open that "sir" speech when you get knighted.
Sa génération (les Impressionnistes) l'a reconnu et adoubé quand les critiques et le public le boudaient.
His generation (the Impressionists) recognized him him when the critics and the public stayed away from him.
Adopté par la France et adoubé par Paris, Ibra s’apprête donc à faire son entrée dans le cercle très fermé des célèbres reproductions.
Adopted by all of France and idolised in the capital, Ibra is soon to be part of this select group.
Georges Simenon fut adoubé par Mauriac, Gide et Céline, sans doute parce que, au-delà du genre – policier – dans lequel ils s’inscrivaient, ses romans traitaient de la destinée humaine.
Simenon was acknowledged as a master storyteller by such French authors as Mauriac, Gide and Céline, most certainly because his works reach beyond the detective genre to the theme of human destiny.
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