cortège

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As this procession was moving along, however, a fire broke out in the town, and the attendants, actuated either by a sense of duty requiring them to aid in extinguishing the flames, or by curiosity to witness the conflagration, abandoned the funeral cortège.

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  1. A train of attendants; a company of followers; a procession. Henry and Isabella, each attended by a brilliant cortége of cavaliers and nobles. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 3.

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  1. French, from Italian corteggio, a train, retinue, from corte, a court: see court, n.
 

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