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Definition of Cavalcade
1. Noun. A procession of people traveling on horseback.
Definition of Cavalcade
1. n. A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade.
Definition of Cavalcade
1. Noun. A company of riders. ¹
2. Noun. A parade. ¹
3. Noun. A trail ride, usually more than one day long. ¹
4. Noun. (by extension) A series, a chain (e.g. of events). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cavalcade
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cavalcade
Literary usage of Cavalcade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts,: Including by John Heneage Jesse (1855)
"Cromwell appointed to the Command in Ireland — He departs from Whitehall with a
splendid cavalcade—Massacres at Drogheda and Wexford—Instances of Cromwell's ..."
2. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"Allusion to bracelets in an ancient poetical name of the river Boyne. Ornamente
mentioned in a description of a cavalcade given in an ancient preface to the ..."
3. Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'eighty by Charles Dickens (1868)
"Not at all ill-pleased to have so narrowly escaped ihi: cavalcade, they lost no
more time in asking questions, but hurried to The Boot with as much speed as ..."
4. In the Forbidden Land: An Account of a Journey Into Tibet, Capture by the by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1898)
"... mile after mile at an unpleasant pace, until we arrived at a spot where, drawn
up in a line, was the cavalcade we had seen from the summit of the hill. ..."
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