TTBa line of people on horses or in cars or carriages moving along as part of a ceremony 〔作为仪式一部分的〕马队,车队
Examples from the Corpus
cavalcade• The great cavalcade was on the move.• Our cavalcadesweeps into the Kremlin just before noon.• The royalcavalcadeenteredLondon in early May and received a tumultuouswelcome from its citizens.• Which was how we could get away from Vadinamia, unmolested by any of that cavalcade of criminals.• Doublegates opened automatically and the cavalcade moved inside the perimeter.• The automatic barriers rose up and the cavalcade swept through to the Palace.• And then she walked to the cavalcade which would whisk her to her flight back to London.• The tortuously narrow Lolo Trail, blocked by crags, trees and undergrowth, was quickly traversed by Joseph's uncomplainingcavalcade.
Origincavalcade
(1500-1600)French“horse-ride”, from Old Italian, from cavalcare“to ride on a horse”, from Latincaballus; → CAVALIER