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cavalcade

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cavalcade is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Frank Lloyd . The screenplay by Reginald Berkeley and Sonya Levien is based on the 1931 play of the same title by Noël Coward . The story presents a view of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And then she walked to the cavalcade which would whisk her to her flight back to London. ▪ Double gates opened automatically and the cavalcade moved inside the perimeter. ▪ Our cavalcade sweeps into the Kremlin just before noon. ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a procession of people traveling on horseback

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cavalcade \Cav"al*cade`\, n. [F. cavalcade, fr. It. cavalcata, fr. cavalcare to go on horseback, fr. LL. caballicare, fr. L. caballus an inferior horse, Gr. ?. Cf. Cavalier , Cavalry .] A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen ...

Usage examples of cavalcade.

He directed the cavalcade of cars and large autobuses while birds chirped merrily in the trees on that sunny afternoon, but the birdsong was the only merriment as perfectly groomed men and women in muted mourning colors filed past him for the funeral of Madam C.

Leibowitz slipped the keys across the table and watched helplessly, as his comrade scooped the loose change and a few lire off the table, ran to the van, and pulled out into the long cavalcade of passing cars.

And along the flanks of this cavalcade ran grooms and huntsmen in green and leather, their jagged liripipes flung about their necks, leading the leashed hounds.

Round the high Char Minar sounds of gay cavalcades Blend with the music of cymbals and serenades.

Zev, Reigh Count, Gallant Fox, Twenty Grand, Cavalcade, Omaha, War Admiral, Whirlaway, Shut Out, Count Fleet, Citation and Assault, to mention only a few.

Barney and the girl remounted and the little cavalcade moved forward through the ballium and the great gate into the court beyond.

They reached Malpais Springs at suppertime, and had not got past the town limits before their strange cavalcade started to attract a crowd.

The sword-bearer was to be provided with a gown of murrey, and a deputation from the civic guilds, to the number of 410 persons, clad in gowns of the same colour, was to join the cavalcade.

Notre-Dame dans la rumeur des cavalcades et les tocsins pareils aux battements de coeur du soleil.

And then the little cavalcade, Maria on Periwinkle, with Wrolf and Wiggins one on each side of her, trotted gaily out of the stableyard, through the garden and out through the unlocked door under the archway into the park.

At the stroke of three, joined by a tottering retirement-home group, they were exposed to a prideful description of the local soil, a glimpse of distant family-tended grape arbors, a cavalcade of pressers, casks, bungholes, bottling nozzles, corking devices: all of it suffered through so as to earn samples of sugary wine, served in paper cups.

His curiosity was excited, and, instead of regretting his extracted promise to join the cavalcade, he rejoiced that an opportunity was thus afforded him of perhaps solving a problem in the secret of which he now began to feel extremely interested.

And with another gracious smile, she rejoined the cavalcade, leaving Lord Roos behind.

Lord Caineron and Nusair joined the cavalcade as it passed Restormir, leaving Sheth Sharp-Tongue, their randon commander, to bring the troops after them.

No one was sure what it was they were seeing, this structureless thing of shouts and broken-up lines and noises, and cavalcades of intricate incomprehensible costumes.