What is "parade"

Parade \Pa*rade"\, n. [F., fr. Sp. parada a halt or stopping, an assembling for exercise, a place where troops are assembled to exercise, fr. parar to stop, to prepare. See Pare, v. t.]

1. The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled. Also called parade ground.

2. (Mil.) An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled.

3. Hence: Any imposing procession; the movement of any group of people marshaled in military order, especially a festive public procession, which may include a marching band, persons in varied costume, vehicles with elaborate displays, and other forms of entertainment, held in commemoration or celebration of an event or in honor of a person or persons; as, a parade of firemen; a Thanksgiving Day parade; a Memorial Day parade; a ticker-tape parade.

   In state returned the grand parade.
   --Swift.

4. Hence: A pompous show; a formal or ostentatious display or exhibition.

   Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade.
   --Swift.

5. Posture of defense; guard. [A Gallicism.]

   When they are not in parade, and upon their guard.
   --Locke.

6. A public walk; a promenade.

   Dress parade, Undress parade. See under Dress, and Undress.

   Parade rest, a position of rest for soldiers, in which, however, they are required to be silent and motionless.
   --Wilhelm.

   Syn: Ostentation; display; show.

   Usage: Parade, Ostentation. Parade is a pompous exhibition of things for the purpose of display; ostentation now generally indicates a parade of virtues or other qualities for which one expects to be honored. ``It was not in the mere parade of royalty that the Mexican potentates exhibited their power.''
   --Robertson. ``We are dazzled with the splendor of titles, the ostentation of learning, and the noise of victories.''
   --Spectator.

Parade \Pa*rade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paraded; p. pr. & vb. n. Parading.] [Cf. F. parader.]

1. To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off.

   Parading all her sensibility.
   --Byron.

2. To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops.

Parade \Pa*rade"\, v. i.

1. To make an exhibition or spectacle of one's self, as by walking in a public place.

2. To assemble in military order for evolutions and inspection; to form or march, as in review or in a public celebratory parade[3].

1650s, "a show of bravado," also "an assembly of troops for inspections," from French parade "display, show, military parade," from Middle French parade (15c.), or from Italian parate "a warding or defending, a garish setting forth," or Spanish parada "a staying or stopping," all from Vulgar Latin *parata, from Latin parere "arrange, prepare, adorn" (see pare), which developed widespread senses in Romanic derivatives. Non-military sense of "march, procession" is first recorded 1670s.

1680s (transitive), from parade (n.). Intransitive sense from 1748. Related: Paraded; parading.

n. 1 An organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed by moving down a street past a crowd. 2 Any succession, series, or display of items. 3 A line of goslings led by one parent and often trailed by the other. 4 The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled. 5 Pompous show; formal display or exhibition. 6 (context Gallicism English) Posture of defense; guard. 7 A public walk; a promenade; now used in street names. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To march or to display. 2 (context transitive English) To display or show; to exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off. 3 (context transitive English) To march past.

1. n. a ceremonial procession including people marching

2. an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things; "a parade of strollers on the mall"; "a parade of witnesses"

3. a visible display; "she made a parade of her sorrows"

1. v. walk ostentatiously; "She parades her new husband around town" [syn: exhibit, march]

2. march in a procession; "the veterans paraded down the street" [syn: troop, promenade]

Parade is a musical with a book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1998 and won Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Original Score (out of nine nominations) and six Drama Desk Awards. The show has had a U.S. national tour and numerous professional and amateur productions in both the U.S. and abroad.

A parade is a procession of people.

Parade may also refer to:

• Military parade

Parade is an American nationwide Sunday newspaper magazine, distributed in more than 700 newspapers in the United States. It was founded in 1941 and is owned by Athlon Publishing, which purchased it from Advance Publications. The most widely read magazine in the U.S., Parade has a circulation of 32 million and a readership of 54.1 million. , its editor is Anne Krueger.

Parade is the third full-length album by the Japanese rock group Plastic Tree, released on August 23, 2000.

Parade is a French comedy film and was the final film directed by Jacques Tati. It was made for television and featured Tati as a clown in a circus. The film was screened at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, but wasn't entered into the main competition.

It was released on Blu-ray in 2014 as part of the Criterion Collection's The Complete Jacques Tati box-set.

A parade (also called march or marchpast) is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by marching bands, floats or sometimes large balloons. Parades are held for a wide range of reasons, but are usually celebrations of some kind. In Britain the term parade is usually reserved for either military parades or other occasions where participants march in formation; for celebratory occasions the word procession is more usual. In the Canadian Forces the term also has several less formal connotations.

Protest demonstrations can also take the form of a parade, but such cases are usually referred to as a march instead.

Parade is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Prince, and the final to feature his backing band The Revolution; in addition to being the soundtrack album to the 1986 film Under the Cherry Moon. It was released on March 31, 1986 by Paisley Park Records and Warner Bros. Records.

After the critical disappointment of his 1985 album Around the World in a Day, Parade was released to acclaim from music critics and was named one of the best albums of 1986 by The Village Voice and NME magazine, who named it their album of the year. It also sold two million copies both in the United States and abroad.

Parade was a British magazine for men.

It was originally known as Blighty between 1916 and 1920 and was intended as a humorous magazine for servicemen, competing against magazines such as Titbits and Reveille.

The magazine was relaunched in 1939, at the outbreak of the Second World War and continued afterwards until 1958, when it was renamed Blighty Parade while being turned into a pin-up magazine. It was known as Parade and Blighty for the final weeks of 1959 when it finally became Parade in 1960. By the 1970s content had progressed to topless and nude photos of models, and at the end of the 1990s it went hardcore.

Although there has been more than one change of ownership, the title continues to be published.

Parade is Minori Chihara's third solo album. The album contains all three CD singles released in the same year: Melty tale storage, Ameagari no Hana yo Sake, and a modified version of Paradise Lost. Its release promotion featured a "Dream Limited Edition" including an alternate album cover and a photo picturebook. Bonus items such as B2 posters and polaroid prints were also included upon purchase of the album at specific chain stores included in the promotion. Parade placed 16th on the Oricon charts after its debut.

Parade is a Canadian music variety television series which aired on CBC Television from 1959 to 1964.

Parade were a British five piece girl group, who were formerly signed to Asylum Records. The band had five members: Emily Biggs (born 16 March 1990), Lauren Deegan (born 8 June 1989), Bianca Claxton (born 28 November 1989), Jessica Agombar (born 7 August 1990) and Sian Charlesworth (born 17 January 1987). On 11 February 2013 it was confirmed via the Parade Twitter account the group had split following the departure of Bianca Claxton. Agombar and Claxton have embarked on solo careers, with Agombar releasing tracks Bam Bam and Bam Bam Pt. 2. Claxton released her debut EP Hi-5 on May 17, 2015, and entered the selection for the UK Eurovision Song Content entry in 2016. Agombar is releasing her debut EP later this year; with Claxton releasing her debut album in the not too near future

Parade is the self-titled debut studio album by British girl group Parade. The album was released on November 11, 2011, by Asylum Records. This album missed the top hundred of the UK Albums Chart charting at 171 which led to the band being dropped from the record label.

Parade is an off-Broadway revue with book, music, and lyrics by Jerry Herman, produced by Lawrence Kasha that opened originally at the Showplace in New York and moved to the Players Theatre Players Theatre on January 20, 1960.

Parade is a 2009 Japanese drama film directed by Isao Yukisada.

Parade is a ballet with music by Erik Satie and a one-act scenario by Jean Cocteau. The ballet was composed 1916–1917 for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The ballet premiered on Friday, May 18, 1917 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, with costumes and sets designed by Pablo Picasso, choreography by Léonide Massine (who danced), and the orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet.

The idea of the ballet seems to have come from Jean Cocteau. He had heard Satie's Trois morceaux en forme de poire ("Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear") in a concert, and thought of writing a ballet scenario to such music. Satie welcomed the idea of composing ballet music (which he had never done until that moment) but refused to allow any of his previous compositions to be used for the occasion, so Cocteau started writing a scenario (the theme being a publicity parade in which three groups of circus artists try to attract an audience to an indoor performance), to which Satie composed the music (with some additions to the orchestral score by Cocteau, see below).

Work on the production started in the middle of the First World War, with Jean Cocteau traveling back and forth to the war front in Belgium until shortly before the premiere. The most difficult part of the creative process, however, seems to have been to convince Misia Edwards in supporting the idea of having this ballet performed by the Ballets Russes. She was easily offended but was trusted completely by Sergei Diaghilev for advice on his productions. A first version of the music (for piano) was dedicated to Misia and performed in 1916.

Eventually, after aborting some other plans (and some more intrigue), Sergei Diaghilev's support was won, and the choreography was entrusted to Léonide Massine, who had recently become the first dancer of the Ballets Russes and lover of Diaghilev, replacing Vaslav Nijinsky who had left Paris shortly before the outbreak of the war. The set and costume design was entrusted to the then cubist painter Pablo Picasso. In addition to the costume designs Pablo Picasso also designed a curtain which illustrated a group of performers at a fair consuming dinner before a performance. The Italian futurist artist Giacomo Balla aided Picasso in his creating the curtain and other designs for the Parade. In February 1917 all the collaborators, excluding Satie, met in Rome to begin working of Parade scheduled to premiere in May.

The poet Guillaume Apollinaire described Parade as "a kind of surrealism" (une sorte de surréalisme) when he wrote the program note in 1917, thus coining the word three years before Surrealism emerged as an art movement in Paris. The English premiere of Parade, performed by Ballet Russes, was performed at London's Empire Theatre in November 14, 1919 and became a cultural event. (Hargrove, 1998)

The ballet was remarkable for several reasons:

• It was the first collaboration between Satie and Picasso, and also the first time either of them had worked on a ballet, thus making it the first time either collaborated with Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes.
• The plot of Parade incorporated and was inspired by popular entertainments of the period, such as Parisian music-halls and American silent-films.
• Much of the settings used in Parade's plot occurred outside of the formal Parisian theater, depicting the streets of Paris.
• The plot reproduces various elements of everyday life such as the music hall and fairground. Before Parade, the use of popular entertainment materials was considered unsuitable for the elite world of the ballet.
• The plot of Parade composed by Cocteau includes the failed attempt of a troupe of performers to attract audience members to view their show.
• Some of Picasso's cubist costumes were in solid cardboard, allowing the dancers only a minimum of movement.
• The score contained several "noise-making" instruments (typewriter, foghorn, an assortment of milk bottles, pistol,...), which had been added by Jean Cocteau (somewhat to the dismay of Satie). It is supposed that such additions by Cocteau showed his eagerness to create a succes de scandale, comparable to that of Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps which had been premiered by the Ballets Russes some years before. Although Parade was quite revolutionary, bringing common street entertainments to the elite, being scorned by audiences and being praised by critics, nonetheless many years later Stravinsky could still pride himself in never having been topped in the matter of succes de scandale.
• The Ragtime contained in Parade would later be adapted for piano solo, and attained considerable success as a separate piano piece. The finale is "a rapid ragtime dance in which the whole cast [makes] a last desperate attempt to lure the audience in to see their show".

The premiere of the ballet resulted in a number of scandals. One faction of the audience booed, hissed, and was very unruly, nearly causing a riot before they were drowned out by enthusiastic applause. Many of their objections were focused on Picasso's Cubist design, which was met with cries of "sales boche" (dirty Krauts).

According to the painter Gabriel Fournier, one of the most memorable scandals was an altercation between Cocteau, Satie, and music critic Jean Poueigh, who gave Parade an unfavorable review. Satie had written a postcard to the critic which read, "Monsieur et cher ami – vous êtes un cul, un cul sans musique! Signé Erik Satie" ("Sir and dear friend – you are an arse, an arse without music! Signed, Erik Satie."). The critic sued Satie, and at the trial Cocteau was arrested and beaten by police for repeatedly yelling "arse" in the courtroom. Satie was given a sentence of eight days in jail.

is a 2006 album by Japanese rock band GO!GO!7188.

"Parade" is the fourth episode of the second series of British television sitcom, Bottom. It was first broadcast on 22 October 1992. This was the first of three episodes not to be set in the flat at all.

Parade (with Fireworks) is a two-issue comic book mini-series by Brooklyn based writer-artist Mike Cavallaro. It was published by Image Comics in Fall 2007.

Parade is the fourth studio album by Spandau Ballet, released on 25 May 1984 by Chrysalis Records. The album contained two UK Top 10 hits, "Only When You Leave" (#3, also a minor US hit), and "I'll Fly for You" (#9).

A parade is a type of French street entertainment which originated during the Renaissance. It consisted of a group of entertainers, which could include actors, singers, dancers, jugglers, and other types of performers, who took part in parades (in the usual sense of the word) and entertained spectators at those times when the procession stopped moving.

In the 18th century the term was applied to short improvisational buffooneries, typically incorporating vulgarities, which were performed either on an outdoor platform or a balcony in order to entice passersby into show-booths and theatres at the fairs or on the Boulevard du Temple. The characters were often drawn from the commedia dell'arte tradition. According to M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet "the humour was of the crudest sort, relying on sexual innuendos or even explicit remarks and actions, obscene gestures and references to defecation and other bodily functions."

The parades strongly influenced the 18th-century genre of comédie-parade, a type of play or opéra-comique, usually in one act, which also used characters from the commedia dell'arte. These pieces were a bit more refined and polite, at least when presented in public theatres.

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A parade on the (National Gallery, 1760)

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A parade on the Boulevard du Temple (1816)

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A parade of acrobatics at the entrance to the cabaret of Ramponneau (18th century)

"Parade" is a song performed by American recording artist Dev, produced by NanosauR. It was written by Dev herself and chosen as a single extracted from her EP Bittersweet July Pt. 2 after being acclaimed by the fans. The song was released on the radios and on VEVO on March 24, 2015. "Parade" is a electropop rapped song which has been compared to Dev's previous hits like Bass Down Low, Fireball and In My Trunk. The official video was directed by photographer Aris Jerome.

Dev performed live the song at #DDICL before a football match the day of its release along with her previous single Honey Dip and her hit In The Dark, as well as on her Bittersweet July tour.