I. |kavəl|kād noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle French, ride on horseback, from Old Italian cavalcata, from cavalcare to go on horseback, from Late Latin caballicare, from Latin caballus horse, nag; akin to Greek dialect (Black sea) kaballeion horse-drawn vehicle, Old Slavic kobyla horse; all perhaps of eastern European origin; akin to the source of Finnish hepo horse
1.
a. : a procession of riders or carriages : a company in procession
b. : a train, procession, or sequence of vehicles or ships
2. : a dramatic sequence or pageant : procession , series
the cavalcade of years
the cavalcade of scientific research
II. intransitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
: to take part in a cavalcade
horsemen cavalcading along