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单词 motorcade
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motorcaden.

Brit. /ˈməʊtəkeɪd/, U.S. /ˈmoʊdərˌkeɪd/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: motor n., -cade suffix.
Etymology: < motor n. + -cade suffix.
Originally U.S.
A procession, parade, or (occasionally) convoy of motor vehicles.
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society > travel > [noun] > passage in a continuous stream > procession > of vehicles
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autocade1924
tractorcade1977
1910 Rockford (Illinois) Republic 7 Nov. 2/6 A motorcade of 32 automobiles touched Rockford today on the first half day of the 1020 mile reliability grind.
1913 Arizona Republican 5 June 2/4 The motorcade can..donate large and salubrious gobs of melody to the natives at all points along the line.
1913 Arizona Republican 4 July 4/2 The sporting editor of the Republican..hammered away at the ‘motorcade’ a term which..he had invented sometime before in order that newspapers might keep pace with the developments of vehicular transportation.
1924 Notes & Queries 19 Apr. 288/1 A parade of motor cars..was termed in the local [sc. Florida] papers a ‘motorcade’.
1938 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 22 Jan. 3/6 An insurgent squadron destroyed a government motorcade of 100 trucks.
1957 F. O'Connor Let. 31 Jan. in Habit of Being (1980) 200 That was a notable Klan meeting..because the Grand Dragon attended and the Klansmen rode all over the county in a motorcade.
1969 Wall St. Jrnl. 28 Jan. 1/6 He rides in Presidential motorcades.
1999 S. L. Kasfir Contemp. Afr. Art i. 28 (caption) Two leaders ride in a motorcade amidst modern power symbols and a crowd of onlookers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

motorcadev.

Brit. /ˈməʊtəkeɪd/, U.S. /ˈmoʊdərˌkeɪd/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: motorcade n.
Etymology: < motorcade n.
Originally U.S.
intransitive. To travel in a motorcade.
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1965 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 2 July (1970) 294 We motorcaded into Madison Square Garden—the streets lined with cheering people.
1981 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 26 Jan. 7 The 52 former US hostages in Iran motorcaded to this Hudson River landmark.
2018 M. Obama Becoming xix. 297 All of us gathering for coffee and tea before motorcading together to the Capitol for the swearing in.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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