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cavalcade | passage | Related terms |

Cavalcade is a related term of passage.


As a verb cavalcade

is .

As a noun passage is

; a leg of a journey.

cavalcade

English

("cavalcade" on Wikipedia)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A company of riders.
  • A parade.
  • * 1929 , , Chapter IX, Section iii
    • In the second row of the cavalcade were Francie, Fanny's god-daughter, now thirteen years old and already elegant in long frilled pantalettes, tartan skirts, and a leghorn hat with streamers, …
  • A trail ride, usually more than one day long.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=5 citation , passage=Stranleigh found no difficulty in getting a cavalcade together at Bleacher’s station, an amazingly long distance west of New York.}}
  • (by extension) A series, a chain (e.g. of events).
    • As soon as I visited this website, a cavalcade of dialog boxes started to appear on my screen; that's when I realized my computer was infected with a virus.

    Synonyms

    * (company of riders) company * (parade) parade, procession * (series) chain, series

    Verb

    (cavalcad)
  • To move as part of a series or group, such as marchers in a parade or snow in an avalanche, especially in large numbers or in a chaotic or dangerous fashion
  • * 1725 , John Windhus, “A Journey to Mequinez”, in John Pinkerton, The Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels , Volume 15, Longman et al. (1814), page 478:
    • Great numbers of horse were still cavalcading , but
  • * 1866 , (Elizabeth Charles), The Draytons and the Davenants , M. W. Dodd, pages 348–9:
    • although for the most part he believed the devil was too good a general to let his soldiers waste their time in cavalcading about on broom-sticks.
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    passage

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
    • passage of scripture
    She struggled to play the difficult passages .
  • Part of a path or journey.
    • He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.
  • The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
    • The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.
  • (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
  • A passageway or corridor.
  • (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
  • (euphemistic) The vagina.
  • * 1986 , Bertrice Small, A Love for All Time , New American Library, ISBN 9780451821416, page 463:
    • With a look of triumph that he was unable to keep from his dark eyes he slid into her passage with one smooth thrust,
  • * 1987 , Usha Sarup, Expert Lovemaking , Jaico Publishing House, ISBN 978-81-7224-162-9, page 53:
    • This way, the tip of your penis will travel up and down her passage .
  • * 2009 , Cat Lindler, Kiss of a Traitor , Medallion Press, ISBN 9781933836515, page 249:
    • At the same moment, Aidan plunged two fingers deep into her passage and broke through her fragile barrier.
  • The act of passing
  • * 1886 , Pacific medical journal Volume 29
    • He claimed that he felt the passage of the knife through the ilio-cæcal valve, from the very considerable pain which it caused.
    Derived terms
    * rite of passage * passagemaker * passage maker

    Verb

    (passag)
  • (medicine) To pass a pathogen through a host or medium
    • He passaged the virus through a series of goats.
    After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate.
  • (rare) To make a , especially by sea; to cross
    • They passaged to America in 1902.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.

    • Verb

    (passag)
  • (dressage) To execute a passage movement
  • * {{quote-book, 1915, Cunninghame Graham, Hope citation
    • , passage=After a spring or two, the horse passaged and reared, and lighting on a flat slab of rock which cropped up in the middle of the road, slipped sideways and fell with a loud crash

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