cavalcade

From 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkævəlˌkeɪd/, /ˌkævəlˈkeɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

cavalcade (plural cavalcades)

1. (collective) A company of riders.

   Synonym: company

2. A parade.

   Synonyms: parade, procession

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

     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, …

3. A trail ride, usually more than one day long.
   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎:

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

4. (by extension) A series, a chain (e.g. of events).

   Synonyms: chain, series

   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.

cavalcade (third-person singular simple present cavalcades, present participle cavalcading, simple past and past participle 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
   • 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:

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

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

     […] 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.

• cavalcade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from French cavalcade.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkaː.vɑlˈkaː.də/

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• Hyphenation: ca‧val‧ca‧de
• Rhymes: -aːdə

cavalcade f (plural cavalcades)

1. horse parade, cavalcade

• Homophones: cavalcadent, cavalcades

cavalcade f (plural cavalcades)

1. cavalcade

cavalcade

1. first-person singular present indicative of cavalcader
2. third-person singular present indicative of cavalcader
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cavalcader
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cavalcader
5. second-person singular imperative of cavalcader

• “cavalcade” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old French, see cavalcade.

cavalcade f (plural cavalcades)

1. cavalcade