cavalcade
A procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etcA procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
Meaning
4 senses(collective)A procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.
Kavalkade, Reiterzug
кавалька́даkavalʹkáda
A ceremonial parade.
Reiterzug, berittener Zug, Kavalkade
A trail ride, usually more than one day long.
(broadly)An often dramatic series or chain of events or things.
As soon as I visited this website, a cavalcade of dialog boxes started to appear on my screen; that's when I realized my computer was infected with a virus.
- a procession of people traveling on horseback
Translations
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Origin
From French cavalcade, from Old French cavalcade, from Old Italian cavalcata, from cavalcaFrom French cavalcade, from Old French cavalcade, from Old Italian cavalcata, from cavalcare (“to ride on horseback”), from Medieval Latin caballicō, from Vulgar Latin caballus (“horse”). Doublet of chevauchee.
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Forms
plural: cavalcades| Singular | cavalcade |
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