cavalcade
See also: cavalcadé
English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
cavalcade (plural cavalcades)
- (collective) A company of riders.
- Synonym: company
- A parade.
- Synonyms: parade, procession
- 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) A series, a chain (e.g. of events).
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Related terms
Translations
company of riders
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parade
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Verb
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- 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 reading
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French cavalcade.
Pronunciation
Noun
cavalcade f (plural cavalcades)
French
Pronunciation
Noun
cavalcade f (plural cavalcades)
Verb
cavalcade
- first-person singular present indicative of cavalcader
- third-person singular present indicative of cavalcader
- first-person singular present subjunctive of cavalcader
- third-person singular present subjunctive of cavalcader
- second-person singular imperative of cavalcader
Further reading
- “cavalcade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, see cavalcade.
Noun
cavalcade f (plural cavalcades)
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