cortège
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See also: cortege
Noun
cortège (plural cortèges)
- Alternative spelling of cortege
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 293:
- On Madame de Mercœur's arrival at the palace she found the carriage and guards in waiting, the Queen having decided that she would do her niece the honour of going to meet her. ...The cortège proceeded about a mile, when a courier announced the Princess's approach, who arrived almost as soon. The carriage, which was at full gallop, stopped suddenly; the guards deployed round, and Mademoiselle alighted.
- 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 106:
- We crowd outside to wait for the funeral cortège. We know this is an important death.
- 2024 July 25, Jason Farago, “Why the Olympics’ Parade of Nations Is the World’s Costume Party”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- The heart of the ceremony remains the parade of nations: the world shrunk to an hourlong cortège, when athletic prowess takes a back seat to country-by-country voguing.
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French cortège, from Italian corteggio, from Italian corteggiare, from Latin cortem, from Latin cors, an alternative form of Latin cohors, which is a compound of co- (see cum) and -hors (see hortus).
Pronunciation
Noun
cortège n or m (plural cortèges, diminutive cortègetje n)
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
cortège m (plural cortèges)
- procession
- Synonym: procession
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “cortège”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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