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cortege

UK/kɔɹˈtɛʒ/US/ˈkɔɹ.tɛʒ/
nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,671 of 15,258neutral

A cortege is a solemn procession, especially at a funeral. The funeral cortege, follow the cortege.

It moves at walking pace whether anybody is walking or not, which is the whole point of it. A cortege passing is one of the few occasions where strangers still stop and stand still.

Definitions of cortege

  1. 1nouncortegeA solemn procession, especially at a funeral.C2

    “The cortege took forty minutes to cover a mile.”

cortege is a procession.

Where it comes from

  1. French

    cortège

  2. English, today

    cortege

Borrowed from French cortège.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

cortege in the wild

  • A funeral procession or cortege is a procession, usually in motor vehicles or on foot, from a funeral home or place of worship to the cemetery or crematorium.

    Funeral procession

  • The funeral attracted an estimated 100,000 spectators who lined the streets to watch the cortege pass.

    Death and state funerals of Kalākaua

  • News reports stated that the Honolulu funeral cortege was so massive it took 75 minutes for its entirety to pass any given point.

    Death and state funerals of Kalākaua

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.