Cortege
[kɒ:'teiʒ]
Definition
(noun.) the group following and attending to some important person.
(noun.) a funeral procession.
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Definition
(n.) A train of attendants; a procession.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Fr.] Train.
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Definition
n. a train of attendants: a procession a funeral procession.
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Examples
- There were our Mohammedan servants, a Latin monk, two Armenians and a Jew in our cortege, and all alike gazed with overflowing eyes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They make the fact of marriage no more certain than does the funeral cortege of a jeddak again place the seal of death upon him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
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