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on parade
a. The assembling or mustering of troops for inspection or display, esp. at set hours; an instance of this. on parade: assembled for inspection or display. Also in extended use.
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1649 Briefe Relat. Some Affaires & Transact. No. 22. 281 Those who could not march above four or five hundred, doe now come to the Parade eight or nine hundred.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Parade..is also a term of War, and commonly used for that appearance of Souldiers in a Garrison about two or three of the clock in the afternoon, to hear prayers, and after that to receive Orders from the Major for the Watch, and Guards next night.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 780 The Cherubim..stood armd To thir night watches in warlike Parade . View more context for this quotation
a1678 A. Marvell Upon Appleton House in Misc. Poems (1681) 87 See how the Flow'rs, as at Parade, Under their Colours stand displaid.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxx. 8 I shall leave it to military men, who have seen a service more active than the parade.
1833 E. Bulwer-Lytton Godolphin I. vi. 54 He was not very much bored by drills and parade.
1889 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Despot Broomsedge Cove xxii. 396 He glanced at Jepson with a lively little grin, all his snaggled teeth on parade.
1889 United Service Apr. 399 The parade-ground..is a large stretch of ground. Here the daily parades and drills take place.
1929 in J. J. Niles et al. Songs my Mother never taught Me 182 The raggedy assed cadets are on parade.
1999 Times 2 Aug. 41/3 Army life is heavily ritualised: parades, drill, uniforms and tradition come together to create a powerful order that appeals to something within the male psyche.
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