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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
motorcade
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the President's motorcade
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A motorcade through downtown Moon Beach, a twenty-one-gun salute, a memorial service in the cathedral.
▪ All the motorways were cleared and our sixteen car motorcade cruised down the centre of the freeway at 6Omph.
▪ But they instantly look the other way when he and his motorcade come into sight.
▪ Catcalls greeted his motorcade the day he left.
▪ It does not show the motorcade during the assassination.
▪ Pacino detours his motorcade to visit the grieving parents.
▪ Secretary Deborah Butler, 33, planned to fire as she watched his motorcade in Denver, Colorado.
▪ The simple fact that his motorcade stops at red traffic lights has deeply impressed Ankara residents.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
motorcade

motorcade \motorcade\ n. a procession of people traveling in motor cars.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
motorcade

1909, from motor- + suffix from cavalcade.

Wiktionary
motorcade

n. A procession of cars carrying VIPs, especially political figures.

WordNet
motorcade

n. a procession of people traveling in motor cars

Wikipedia
Motorcade

A motorcade, or autocade, is a procession of vehicles. The term motorcade was coined by Lyle Abbot (in 1912 or 1913 when he was automobile editor of the Arizona Republican), and is formed after cavalcade on the false notion that "-cade" was a suffix meaning "procession". In fact, there is no such suffix in either French or Latin, although -cade has now since become a productive suffix in English, leading to the alternative names carcade, autocade, and even Hoovercade (after J. Edgar Hoover). Eric Partridge called the name a "monstrosity", and Lancelot Hogben considered the word to be a "counterfeit coinage". The original suffix in cavalcade is actually "-ade".

Usage examples of "motorcade".

There will be no such rubbish in my motorcade those instruments can too easily be intercepted, conversations overheard, recorded.

His vehicle was again in the middle of the motorcade with Gulliver driving the Mercedes ahead of them, carrying armed guards while behind followed the third Mercedes with Martin sitting beside the driver.

Vice-President Lyndon Johnson, who had ridden in the motorcade, took the oath of office and assumed the duties of President.

Therefore, Oswald could not have known that the motorcade would pass directly by the .

Oswald knew the exact motorcade route as of Thursday morning, November 21.

While there is no way of knowing whether Oswald had seen any of the published information relevant to the motorcade, his actions indicate a total unawareness of the events surrounding the procession through Dallas.

And this was the position of the motorcade and it was about 15 or 16 after 12.

They are Ronald Fischer and Robert Edwards, both of whom saw a man without a rifle in the window shortly before the motorcade arrived.

Arnold Rowland saw the gunman 15 minutes before the motorcade arrived at the plaza.

Sony Vaio notebook computer as the motorcade sped along at well over seventy miles an hour.

Up ahead, the rest of the motorcade began rapidly pulling away from them.

Glancing to his right, he could see Dodgeball-the decoy limousine-pulling up to his side as Pena Boulevard ended and the motorcade poured onto 1-70 West.

On one TV, he watched the Sky News replays of the attack on the presidential motorcade, and the attacks in London and Paris and Saudi Arabia.

You never get to ask him questions, or hang out with him, or ride in the motorcade or travel on the bus with him.

It was just a quick hop to the tarmac at Peterson AFB where Air Force One, two C130 transports filled with the remains of the presidential motorcade, and six F-16s armed with Sidewinder air-to-air missiles were revved up and ready to rock.