CAVALCADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cavalcade mean? 

• CAVALCADE (noun)
  The noun CAVALCADE has 1 sense:

1. a procession of people traveling on horseback

  Familiarity information: CAVALCADE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAVALCADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A procession of people traveling on horseback

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("cavalcade" is a kind of...):

procession (the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation)

 Context examples 

The cavalcade, following the sweep of the drive, quickly turned the angle of the house, and I lost sight of it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Standing up on our curricle, we could see the cavalcade approaching over the Downs.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The head of the cavalcade had reached the lists ere the rear had come clear of the city gate, for the fairest and the bravest had assembled from all the broad lands which are watered by the Dordogne and the Garonne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)