A court of honor (or court of honour) is a semi-official or unofficial tribunal constituted to determine various questions of social protocol, breaches of etiquette, and other allegations of breaches of honor, or entitlement to various honors. In English the term is also an architectural term (see Cour d'Honneur).
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“World history is a court of judgment.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
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