PARADE

[verb]The Saint Patrick's Day marchers paraded up Fifth Avenue, past the cathedral. [I]In ancient Rome, captured generals were paraded through the streets in chairs. [T]On Sunday afternoons the middle classes parade (= walk about esp. in order to be seen and admired) up and down the sea front in their best clothes. [I](figurative) The children came into the living room to parade their new clothes (= show them in order to be admired). [T](figurative) It's sickening the way he parades his wealth, his car and his expensive clothes (= shows them in an obvious way in order to be admired). [T](figurative) Publicly the government parades (= tries to show in an obvious way) its deep concern over unemployment, but in reality it does nothing to improve the situation. [T]