Other forms: cavalcades
A cavalcade is a procession of riders or vehicles. A cavalcade of cars.
It began as horses only, and the word kept the sense of ceremony when the horses went. A cavalcade is meant to be watched, which is what separates it from traffic.
1nouncavalcadeA procession of riders or vehicles.
“The cavalcade took twenty minutes to pass.”
cavalcade is a procession.
Italian cavalcata, a ride on horseback, from Latin caballus, a horse; the same root gives cavalry and chivalry.
roa-oit
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Old French
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French
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English, today
cavalcade
Built from
Borrowed from French cavalcade, from Old French cavalcade, from roa-oit cavalcata, from cavalcare. From French cavalcade, from Old French cavalcade, from roa-oit cavalcata, from cavalcare (“to ride on horseback”), from Medieval Latin caballicō, from Vulgar Latin caballus (“horse”). a doublet of chevauchee.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA