cortège

A form of cortege — A ceremonial procession, especially for a wedding or funeral or following a monarch.

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Meanings

nouncortège (plural cortèges)

plural cortèges

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of cortege.

    We crowd outside to wait for the funeral cortège. We know this is an important death.

    2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 106
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    On Madame de Mercœur's arrival at the palace she found the carriage and guards in waiting, the Queen having decided that she would do her niece the honour of going to meet her. ...The cortège proceeded about a mile, when a courier announced the Princess's approach, who arrived almost as soon. The carriage, which was at full gallop, stopped suddenly; the guards deployed round, and Mademoiselle alighted.

    1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 293

    The heart of the ceremony remains the parade of nations: the world shrunk to an hourlong cortège, when athletic prowess takes a back seat to country-by-country voguing.

    2024 July 25, Jason Farago, “Why the Olympics’ Parade of Nations Is the World’s Costume Party”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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