What is "cortege"

Usage examples of "cortege".

Jimmy stood in the Port Authority office dealing with a minor functionary as everyone else was off to watch the cortege leave the city.

Mariko got into the palanquin to more bows, hiding the trembles that beset her, and the cortege left.

The aforementioned sat in the little chapel, awaiting the furler al cortege which wound its slow and respectful way along the country lanes from Maiden Court.

Louis accompanied the cortege bearing away his daughter as far as the royal city of Mantes, where the six months old infant was consigned to the keeping of Robert of Newburgh, the dapifer and justice of Normandy, a man of unexceptionable rank and piety.

It was a marvellous cortege, flowery like springtide, full of felicity, which moved every heart.

I see Mia looking for me, but I turn away and walk toward the concrete steps in the wake of some people who parked where they could avoid the long funeral cortege.

The Court began falling in behind the archbishops as the cortege started across the castle yard, silent but for the continued tolling of the bells.

A bevy of additional clergy and choristers also waited with torches and incense and a huge, jeweled processional cross, but Hubert came and led the two of them inside, out of the sun, to wait in the cool of the baptistery near the rear doors until the expected cortege should actually come into sight.

He stood beside the museum Avro on the aerodrome of San Remo at dusk on the Sunday evening, and watched the kidnapping cortege coming towards him across the field with genuine admiration.

Behind came a considerable cortege: Velja's mother and sister accompanied by an emperor and a crown prince, the circus company and the splendidly caparisoned honor guard, all walking in solemn cadence to a string rendition of Chopin's funeral music.

That left the organization of what were essentially funeral corteges through every hamlet, village, and town on the road to Haven.

Even a funeral is comparatively dull without the military band and the four-and-four processions, and the cities where these resplendent corteges of woes are of daily occurrence are cheerful cities.

Either these dreary corteges went past, in which case she would have surely seen at least one of them in a whole year.

Appareled in cymars and mantles, in sendaline and jaconet and organdy like the cortege of a celebration, they followed Linden as if to do her honor.

Without uttering a word of warning, the Marseilles troop falls upon the cortège, strikes down the flags, disarms the National Guard, tears the epaulettes off the officers' shoulders, drags the mayor to the ground by his scarf, pursues the counselors, sword in hand, puts the mayor and syndic-attorney in arrest, and, during the night, sacks four dwellings, the whole under the direction of three Jacobins of the place under indictment for recent crimes or misdemeanors.