encomium \en-KOH-mee-uhm\, noun; plural encomiums or encomia \-mee-uh\:

An often formal expression of warm or high praise.

Encomium derives, via Latin, from Greek enkomion, from en-, "in" + komos, "revel."

An often formal expression of warm or high praise.

Weekends always dissolve in the same pulsing miasma of encomia and red wine from the periphery.