cavalcade
See also: cavalcadé
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French cavalcade, from Old French cavalcade, from Old Italian cavalcata, from cavalcare (“to ride on horseback”), from Medieval Latin caballicō, from Vulgar Latin caballus (“horse”). Doublet of chevauchee.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
cavalcade (plural cavalcades)
- (collective) A procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
- Synonym: company
- A ceremonial parade.
- Synonyms: parade, procession
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- For the first three hours all went as well as could be expected, and then an accident happened that nearly lost us the pleasure of the company of our venerable friend Billali, whose litter was leading the cavalcade.
- 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter IX, Section iii
- In the second row of the cavalcade were Francie, Fanny's god-daughter, now thirteen years old and already elegant in long frilled pantalettes, tartan skirts, and a leghorn hat with streamers, …
- A trail ride, usually more than one day long.
- 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad[1]:
- Stranleigh found no difficulty in getting a cavalcade together at Bleacher’s station, an amazingly long distance west of New York.
- (by extension) An often dramatic series or chain of events or things.
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
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parade
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VerbEdit
cavalcade (third-person singular simple present cavalcades, present participle cavalcading, simple past and past participle cavalcaded)
- To move as part of a series or group, such as marchers in a parade or snow in an avalanche, especially in large numbers or in a chaotic or dangerous fashion
- 1725, John Windhus, “A Journey to Mequinez”, in John Pinkerton, The Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels, Volume 15, Longman et al. (1814), page 478:
- Great numbers of horse were still cavalcading, but […]
- 1866, Elizabeth Charles, The Draytons and the Davenants, M. W. Dodd, pages 348–9:
- […] although for the most part he believed the devil was too good a general to let his soldiers waste their time in cavalcading about on broom-sticks.
- 1725, John Windhus, “A Journey to Mequinez”, in John Pinkerton, The Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels, Volume 15, Longman et al. (1814), page 478:
Further readingEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French cavalcade.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
cavalcade f (plural cavalcades or cavalcaden, diminutive cavalcadetje n)
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file) - Homophones: cavalcadent, cavalcades
NounEdit
cavalcade f (plural cavalcades)
VerbEdit
cavalcade
- inflection of cavalcader:
Further readingEdit
- “cavalcade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French, see English cavalcade.
NounEdit
cavalcade f (plural cavalcades)