Saturday, May 29, 2010

CAVALCADE

cavalcade:

- a procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages
- a procession of ships
- a procession of vehicles
- any type of procession
- a sequence; a series

(Example 1: There was a cavalcade of bad economic news in 2009. Example 2: Behind him he sensed the progress of the cavalcade as one by one the carriages wheeled off the Dublin road. [Reference: Stella Tillyard, Citizen Lord: The Life of Edward Fitzgerald, Irish Revolutionary])