cavalcade – English noun declension

English noun forms of cavalcade

Noun: cavalcade
Singularcavalcade
Pluralcavalcades

Sample Sentences

  • To the onlooker, and particularly to those whose memories go back to pre-grouping days, the modern cavalcade of "V2s" and "B1s" is apt to become a little monotonous; but to any running man the general utility characteristics of these two classes are a perfect godsend at times of exceptional pressure, when it is often a case of "first in—first out" with locomotive allocations at sheds. [1949 November and December, O. S. Nock, “Twenty-Four Hours at York—2”, in Railway Magazine, pages 357–358:]
  • For the first three hours all went as well as could be expected, and then an accident happened that nearly lost us the pleasure of the company of our venerable friend Billali, whose litter was leading the cavalcade. [1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]
  • In the second row of the cavalcade were Francie, Fanny's god-daughter, now thirteen years old and already elegant in long frilled pantalettes, tartan skirts, and a leghorn hat with streamers, … [1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter IX, Section iii:]
  • Stranleigh found no difficulty in getting a cavalcade together at Bleacher’s station, an amazingly long distance west of New York. [1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:]
  • As soon as I visited this website, a cavalcade of dialog boxes started to appear on my screen; that's when I realized my computer was infected with a virus.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Celtic *kaballosder.?
3. Latin caballus
4. Latin -ic-
5. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
6. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
7. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
8. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
9. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
10. Proto-Italic *-ājō
11. Proto-Italic *-āō
12. Latin -ō
13. Latin -icō
14. Late Latin caballicō
15. Old Italian cavalcare
16. Old Italian cavalcatabor.
17. Old French cavalcade
18. French cavalcadebor.
19. English cavalcade
20. From French cavalcade, from Old French cavalcade, from Old Italian cavalcata, from cavalcare (“to ride on horseback”), from Medieval Latin caballicō, from Vulgar Latin caballus (“horse”). Doublet of chevauchee. See: French Nouns 'cavalcade'.