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    [Noun]  | "cav*al*cade" | \ ˌka-vəl-ˈkād \


    1: a procession of riders or carriages

    2: a procession of vehicles or ships

    3: a dramatic sequence or procession : series


    Origin: 1644 ;

     Borrowed from French, going back to Middle French, probably borrowed from Italian cavalcata "journey made by horse, group riding horseback, procession of riders accompanying a distinguished person, or formed on the occasion of a ceremony," from cavalcare "to ride horseback" (going back to Late Latin caballicāre, from Latin caballus "work horse, gelding" + Latin -icāre, verb formative) + -ata, suffix of action and result; caballus, of obscure origin, perhaps a loanword from a language of the Balkans or Anatolia {mat|-ade|};

      * Note : The French word probably belongs with other loanwords dealing with military and equestrian matters taken from Italian in the late 15th and 16th centuries, though early instances may also derive from Occitan cavalcada, already attested by ca. 1300. — The earliest evidence for the etymon of caballus is a Greek personal name Kaballâs in a 4th-century b.c. inscription from Ephesus; kaballeîon "work horse" is attested a century later in an inscription from Callatis on the Black Sea coast of southeastern Romania. Neither the word nor any derivative became generally used in Byzantine or Modern Greek. Latin caballus is first attested in a line from a satire of Gaius Lucilius (2nd century b.c.), where it has a definite derogatory connotation: "succusatoris taetri tardique caballi" ("of a jolter, a foul, slow caballus"). In the Romance languages caballus displaced classical Latin equus (descended from the Indo-European etymon; see: {equine|equine}) as a neutral word for a horse, though the progeny of the feminine form equa continued in use in some areas as a word for "mare" (Old French ive, ieve, Spanish yegua, Portuguese egoa, Romanian iapă, etc.). As a loanword into Insular Celtic languages, caballus appears to have had a variant *cappillus (whence Old Irish capall, Welsh ceffyl). Inviting comparison with caballus are a number of words more remote in phonetic form, which cannot be reduced to a single borrowed source: Old Church Slavic kobyla "mare" (in all Slavic languages, as Russian kobýla, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian kòbila, etc.; a loanword and not an internal Slavic formation according to Oleg Trubačev, Proisxoždenie nazvanij domašnix životnyx v slavjanskix jazykax, Moscow, 1960); kevel "well-bred fast horse" in the medieval Turkic dialect recorded in the dictionary of Maḥmūd al-Kāšġarī (11th century); Finnish heponen "horse," Estonian hobu, hobune.;

    [Noun]  | "cavalcade" 


    1: a group of vehicles traveling together or under one management;


      * e.g., " ... the longest cavalcade of floats in the history of the parade "



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    2: a staged presentation often with music that consists of a procession of narrated or enacted scenes;


      * e.g., " ... a cavalcade presenting major events in the town's history "



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     [ "cavalcade" ]

    1: a group of misfits or outlaws.

      * e.g.,  ... ashs' song, 'Renegade Cavalcade', was about a group of 'freaks' 

     [ "Cavalcade" ]

    1: A group of people who travel by horseback or in a vehicle.

      * e.g.,  ... There goes a cavalcade of people down the road. 

     [ "Seth McFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy" ]

    1: Deleted Family Guy gags that are unfunny and cringe

      * e.g.,  ... “Hey! You should watch Seth McFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy!” 

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