cortege
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Before each gala premiere, the hotel hosts what it calls the cortège, or procession.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
But whether spectators were there to pay their respects to someone they admired or to gawk at the cortège for another one of Hollywood’s dead blondes is its own question.
From Salon • Jun. 27, 2025
Videos showed the crowd tossing flowers onto the road as the funeral cortège left the church for the cemetery.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2024
A single bullet hole punctured the glass entrance to Carleton’s store, Mag.Pi, and solemnly greeted the cortège of mourners dropping off flowers and more rainbow flags.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2023
The jets flew over the burial cortège in a tight formation that had an odd imbalance to it.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Vocabulary lists containing cortege
"The Iliad" by Homer, Book 1
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