cavalcade

plural cavalcades

1. collectiveA procession of riders, vehicles, ships, etc.

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   To the onlooker, and particularly to those whose memories go back to pre-grouping days, the modern cavalcade of "V2s" and "B1s" is apt to become a little monotonous; but to any running man the general utility characteristics of these two classes are a perfect godsend at times of exceptional pressure, when it is often a case of "first in—first out" with locomotive allocations at sheds.

   1949 November and December, O. S. Nock, “Twenty-Four Hours at York—2”, in Railway Magazine, pages 357–358

   Synonyms: company

2. A ceremonial parade.

   In the second row of the cavalcade were Francie, Fanny's god-daughter, now thirteen years old and already elegant in long frilled pantalettes, tartan skirts, and a leghorn hat with streamers, …

   1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter IX, Section iii

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   For the first three hours all went as well as could be expected, and then an accident happened that nearly lost us the pleasure of the company of our venerable friend Billali, whose litter was leading the cavalcade.

   1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

   Synonyms: parade, procession

3. A trail ride, usually more than one day long.

   Stranleigh found no difficulty in getting a cavalcade together at Bleacher’s station, an amazingly long distance west of New York.

   1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad

4. broadlyAn 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.

   Synonyms: chain, series

present singular third person cavalcades · participle present cavalcading · participle past cavalcaded · past cavalcaded

1. To move as part of a series or group, such as marchers in a parade or snow in an avalanche, especially in large numbers or in a chaotic or dangerous fashion

   Great numbers of horse were still cavalcading, but […]

   1725, John Windhus, “A Journey to Mequinez”, in John Pinkerton, The Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels, Volume 15, Longman et al. (1814), page 478

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   […] although for the most part he believed the devil was too good a general to let his soldiers waste their time in cavalcading about on broom-sticks.

   1866, Elizabeth Charles, The Draytons and the Davenants, M. W. Dodd, pages 348–9