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  • noun Plural form of cortege.

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Examples

  • It became common for flowers to be thrown on to hearses and for the corteges to be applauded as they passed.

    Wootton Bassett marks end of repatriation days 2011

  • Although the tetrarchs spent most of their time on the road with their vast corteges comprising thousands of advisors, secretaries, and personal armies, each established ties to certain cities more than others.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • "Al Jazeera and other Arab media outlets have grown more objective in reporting in recent years, but when it comes to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, balanced coverage is often outweighed by pathos and narratives of funeral corteges proceeding amid the sounds of explosions."

    Thursday, January 08, 2009 As'ad 2009

  • Peel Holdings' who operate the toll charging Manchester Ship Canal, paid for originally by public subscription; the toll-charging Barton, Liverpool and other airports, ditto; and even the Barton Swing Bridge which actually charges funeral corteges to cross; well they have some brilliant friends don't they?

    INVESTIGATION: Anti-Progress Video, "Comedy", "Sarcasm" 2008

  • Marine base at Quantico, Virginia -- fifteen minutes max -- we saw two military funeral corteges leaving the main gate on their way to the cemetery.

    Semper Fi: The funeral production line at Quantico Virginia 2006

  • Marine base at Quantico, Virginia -- fifteen minutes max -- we saw two military funeral corteges leaving the main gate on their way to the cemetery.

    Semper Fi: The funeral production line at Quantico Virginia 2006

  • That left the organization of what were essentially funeral corteges through every hamlet, village, and town on the road to Haven.

    Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • That left the organization of what were essentially funeral corteges through every hamlet, village, and town on the road to Haven.

    Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • They have been following their funeral corteges, chanting, "We will march, a million of us, to Jerusalem."

    CNN Transcript May 19, 2001 2001

  • We have our funeral corteges at home, with sufficient frequency, but they do not emphasize the thought of the necessary end of all things as do the swathed corpses that one meets so often being carried through the streets, on their way to this or that burning place.

    Roving East and Roving West 1903

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