paraden.1
/pəˈreɪd/, U.S. /pəˈreɪd/ 1.
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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society > armed hostility > military organization > ceremonial > [noun] > parade
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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.
b. A place where troops assemble for parade; a level space forming the interior or enclosed area of a fortification; a parade ground.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > ceremonial > [noun] > parade > parade-ground
parade1704
place d'armes1708
parade ground1724
square1915
parade square1945
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Parade, is a Military word, signifying the Place where Troops usually draw together, in order to mount the Guards, or for any other Service.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. x. 407 Two hundred soldiers..attended him to the great parade before the Emperor's palace... In this parade, a body of troops..were drawn up under arms.
1816 B. Waterhouse Jrnl. Young Man Mass. (1911) i. 215 The parade, so called, is between the Turnkey's house and the barracks.
1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 240 When Barracks are occupied by Troops, the Yards and Parades are to be swept, rolled, and kept clean by them.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 534/2 They contain barracks for the Royal Engineers and Army Service Corps, the general parade, which stretches east and west, and five infantry barracks.
1992 M. Frayn Landing on Sun (BNC) 14 The Parade is the stage and the great offices of state that enclose it on three sides are the décor.
c. The troops assembled on parade.sick parade: see sick adj. and n. Compounds 3.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > troops on parade
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1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 260 The Commanding Officer is then to direct the Parade to Order Arms.
1930 E. Raymond Jesting Army i. iii. 45 A medical officer..and the whole of his Sick Parade ran.
1991 B. Millin Invasion (BNC) 171 The parade dispersed, the Commandos returning to their respective units.
2. Show, display, ostentation; an instance of this. to make (a) parade of: to display ostentatiously.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun]
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display of [verb (transitive)]
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Parade, an appearance or shew, a bravado or vaunting offer.
1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 58 The most virtuous and laudable deed that his whole Life could make any parade of.
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical xi. 150 To make a fine Parade of his own good Qualities and Vertues.
1759 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1812) IV. xxviii. 16 A new display of that state and parade to which he was so much addicted.
1789 W. Belsham Ess. I. xii. 217 Making an empty parade of knowledge which we do not really possess.
1812 Gen. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 22 The unseemly parade of his funeral.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xxi. 35 Another answers, ‘Let him be, He loves to make parade of pain.’ View more context for this quotation
1926 R. H. Tawney Relig. & Rise Capitalism iv. 266 The protest against indiscriminate almsgiving, as the parade of a spurious religion,..was older than the Reformation.
1955 D. Barton Glorious Life 123 Even though I make a great parade of enthusiasm and am far too conscientious about my work.., all this..is not my element.
1982 F. Raphael Byron 115 What they may have intended as a parade of their innocence was taken for a show of shamelessness.
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a. A public march or procession, esp. one celebrating a special day or event.
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society > travel > [noun] > passage in a continuous stream > procession
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [noun] > parade or procession
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1673 in H. Paton Rep. Laing MSS (1914) I. 387 Who ar all going in parad to acouse not uss bot the King's autoritie.
1673–4 Duke of Lauderdale in O. Airy Lauderdale Papers (1885) III. xxiv. 36 They went up with a Parade of 9 or 10 Coaches.
1734 J. Swift Strephon & Cloe in Beautiful Young Nymph 11 The Rites perform'd, the Parson paid, In State return'd the grand Parade.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough xxiv. 335 Not a sweet Ramble, but a slow Parade.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxxi. 580 When a procession is exceptionally large it is called a Parade.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxxi. 581 In the Cleveland Business Men's parade it was alleged that 1500 lawyers had walked.
1958 E. Birney Turvey iv. 30 He had sat down in the middle of the square while acting as marker for the afternoon parade.
1986 Daily Tel. 14 May 1/7 Several Loyalists were arrested in Northern Ireland yesterday in connection with rioting during an illegal parade.
2000 P. Johnson & C. O'Brien World Food: New Orleans 133 Floats in St Patrick's Day parades fling edible treats to cheering onlookers instead of the usual baubles and beads.
b. An assembly of people, esp. a crowd of promenaders. Now largely merged in sense 3a.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals
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1722 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack 126 We saw a great Parade or kind of Meeting.
1830 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 70 The gay Parade grew thin—all the fair crowd Vanish'd.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lv. 6 Where flocks the parade to Magnus' arches.
1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xvii. 265 ‘Did she go into that parade of people?’ said Ingram.
1905 Daily Chron. 28 Mar. 4/6 Glasgow's most fashionable Sunday parade, the ‘crawl’ on Great Western-road.
c. In extended use and figurative: any (real or notional) procession of people or things.
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1796 S. T. Coleridge Watchman 9 Mar. 38 Omitting the long preambles..and the whole parade of egotisms and tuisms.
1936 H. G. Wells Anat. Frustration xiv. 165 The parade of donnish and scholastic drearies.
1945 S. J. Perelman Let. 25 June in Don't tread on Me (1987) 54 The usual excuses: torpor, work, the heat, the whole ugly parade of excuses.
1981 S. McAughtry Belfast Stories i. 36 You can't very well have a whole parade of family and friends walking along and causing traffic jams.
d. to hold up the parade (U.S. colloquial): to cause a delay.
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1915 N.Y. Times 17 Aug. 7/1 The Giants held up the parade for a moment at Ebbets field yesterday, tripping the Dodgers in a ten-inning soiree by a score of 2 to 1.
1925 Washington Post 16 Apr. 4/5 Colston..told the commission that ‘this fly on the back of the elephant couldn't hold up the parade’ even if some of the minority contentions were sustained.
1966 F. Elli Riot (1967) 68 C'mon, Andy, you're holdin' up the parade.
1997 Opera News 8 Feb. 16/1 The parade holds up the parade, when instead we want to push forward to the conclusion of the opera.
4. A public square or promenade; (also) a row of shops in a town, or the street on which they are situated.Frequently in the names of such streets, squares, or promenades.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shopping centre, precinct, etc.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > promenade
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1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World viii. 219 This Square is calcled [sic] the Parade.
1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 149 Before the Church of Santiago is a very handsome Parade.
1766 C. Anstey New Bath Guide ix. i. 57 Whether thou art wont to rove By Parade, or Orange Grove,..In the Circus or the Square.
1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals i. i We saunter on the parades [at Bath].
1791 F. Burney Jrnl. 20 Aug. (1972) I. 35 O how I have thought..of my poor Mrs. Thrale!—I went to look..at the House on the North Parade where we dwelt.
1834 R. Southey Doctor I. 121 In what street, parade, place, square, row, terrace, or lane..will be explained in due time.
1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 101 The smart parades and crescents of the former town.
1885 List of Subscribers, Brighton (South of Eng. Telephone Co.) 5 Vizer E.B...154, Marine-parade.
1922 V. Woolf Jacob's Room ii. 24 The parade smelt of tar which stuck to the heels.
1968 R. K. Cox Retail Site Assessm. ii. 15 Most new shopping centres..have broken away from the old strip parades which usually face each other across heavy inter-town traffic.
2000 Feng Shui for Mod. Living May 63/1 Let's take three restaurants in a short parade of shops, all pretty unprepossessing.
5. A broadcast sequence describing forthcoming programmes, events, etc. Now rare.
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society > communication > broadcasting > a broadcast programme or item > [noun] > types of
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1947 Radio Times 2 May (Scottish ed.) 8/1 Scottish Programme Parade.
1948 Broadcasting in West (B.B.C.) Listen to your regional Programme Parade at 8.10 a.m. daily.
1962 Rep. Comm. Broadcasting 1960 255 in Parl. Papers 1961–2 (Cmnd. 1753) X. 259 Broadcast of a half-hour ‘parade’ of new advertisements.
Compounds
C1. General attributive (chiefly in sense 1).† parade letter n. Obsolete† parade major n. Obsolete† parade pavement n. Obsolete
parade attire n.
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1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 331 The body, lodged in its coffin, was dressed in the parade attire of the Roumanian.
1943 H. Flanagan Dynamo 88 Six volunteer firemen in parade attire: scarlet coats, steel helmets, winged collars.
parade day n.
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1795 J. Murdock Triumphs of Love i. 15 This has been a grand parade day.
1855 W. Horton Let. 21 July in Russian War, 1855: Black Sea Official Corr. (Navy Rec. Soc.) (1945) 247 It was treated as a parade-day and no work done.
1991 W. Newby Peace & War (BNC) 103 This [medical] certificate produced the desired effect and I was allowed to stay at home on parade days.
parade duty n.
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1828 A. M. Porter Coming Out in J. Porter & A. M. Porter Coming Out & Field of Forty Footsteps I. 28 Dublin is said to be the very best situation for learning parade-duty.
1996 Wahington Times (Electronic ed.) 22 June Overtime cuts may end free police parade duty.
parade horse n. (also figurative).
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1779 T. Nelson Let. 9 Mar. in P. D. Chase & W. M. Ferraro Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Ser. (2009) XIX. 422 There are so many Horses..as parade Horses [that are] kept Stallions..that it is very difficult to meet with a fine gelding.
1801 R. Wilson Diary 29 May in Life (1862) i. iv. 189 There are some handsome parade horses..but none can keep a high rate of speed for any distance.
1894 14th Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 123 The descendants of Woodbury Morgan..possess that peculiar qualification necessary for the parade horse.
1974 ‘J. le Carré’ Tinker, Tailor xvi. 132 I refuse to bequeath my life's work to a parade horse.
1998 G. P. Kipling Enter the King 174 The roan horse responds so joyously and so voluntarily to the king's guidance that it begins to march and saunter like a parade horse.
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1807 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 5 576 They are chiefly parade letters to men of celebrity.
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a1753 P. Drake Memoirs (1755) II. iii. 78 The Trenches were levelled,..and then I lost the Title of Parade Major.
parade march n.
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1799 C. Ludger Peevish Man iv. xii. 104 Faith! he forgot his parade-march this time.
1864 H. T. Johns Life Forty-ninth Mass. Volunteers 76 A Massachusetts regiment,.., had occasion to make a parade march through the expanding length of this our Avenue of wealth.
1988 A. Goldbarth (title) Parade March from ‘Creaturely World’.
parade marshal n.
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1984 D. Arnason in Circus Performers' Bar (Vancouver, Brit. Columbia) 50 The skaters are preparing for the town's winter carnival... The younger girls will meet with their parade-marshal instructress at three in the afternoon.
1991 W. Perrie Roads that Move (BNC) 9 Then came the ranks of the individual lodges, men's and women's lodges separate, all in good order, with parade marshals keeping to the side of the ranks.
parade officer n.
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1810 C. James New Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) (at cited word) A Parade Officer, an officer who attends to the minutiæ of regimental duty, but who is not remarkable for military science.
1860 E. Washburn Hist. Sketches Town of Leicester 262 I happened to look out, and saw Gen. Clinton with his life-guard, with several parade-officers.
1994 S. Raphael tr. ‘G. Sand’ Indiana 15 Keeping his back straight, turning in one movement with the permanent smugness typical of the parade officer on duty.
parade order n.
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1806 H. Reeve Jrnl. 18 Jan. in Resid. Vienna & Berlin (1877) 106 Five regiments of infantry and two regiments of cavalry..marched in parade order before the emperor.
1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 432 Parade Order, when a regiment of horse or foot, a troop or company, is drawn up with ranks open and the officers in front, it is said to be in parade order.
2003 Mondaq Business Briefing (Nexis) 29 Apr. The traditional tick-the-box clerical approach..may leave gaps in the barbed wire wide enough to march an entire Colombian drug cartel through in parade order.
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1791 F. Burney Jrnl. 16 Aug. (1972) I. 32 Hemmet..has already built [at Taunton] an excessive pretty & neat street, with a delightful parade pavement.
parade step n.
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1786 Gen. Regulations (Army) 5 He may proceed to the second Stage,—that of marching, beginning first with the slow, or Parade Step.
1806 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) I. 149 The slow or parade-step being 70 paces per minute.
1990 C. Schreiner et al. Flamenco 99 The guitarist also has to pick up on the various conventional or spontaneous signs that orchestrate a dance: Steps—like the parade step.
parade uniform n.
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1824–5 J. F. Cooper Lionel Lincoln II. viii. 113 He wore his parade uniform this evening when he left the house the first time.
1990 C. Jennings Mouthful of Rocks (BNC) 32 Driving up to the gates of the camp, I saw my first legionnaire in parade uniform; he was wearing a white képi, a green tie and blue cummerbund.
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parade drum n. a large drum played at a parade.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > drum > [noun] > large drum
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1957 H. Hartog European Mus. Twentieth Cent. 72 The magnificent stately introduction and March with its use of Parade Drum.
1999 H. Mandel Future Jazz 39 Bowie sometimes beats a huge parade drum.
parade rest n. Military a position of rest, less fatiguing than that of ‘attention’, in which the soldier stands silent and motionless, much used during reviews; also in extended use.
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society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] > weapon-training > manual exercise > position of weapon > specific
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1862 G. C. Strong Cadet Life at West Point 65 We were formed..into two ranks at parade rest.
1997 AOPA Pilot Nov. 85/1 The Maine-bred ‘exotic dancer’..came over and plucked The Colonel's glasses off his nose while he sat at parade rest in a folding chair.
parade ring n. a circuit at a racecourse round which horses can be walked to warm up before a race.
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1930 Times 24 Mar. 4/2 It is almost impossible to tell by watching a horse walk in the parade ring whether he is plated, or whether he is carrying, to use a racing term, ‘the heavies’.
2000 Tuam (County Galway) Herald & Western Advertiser 8 July 10/1 With the Croi pavilion just a stone's throw away from the parade ring, revellers have the choice of either sauntering to trackside themselves, or viewing proceedings on closed circuit television.
parade square n. Military (originally and chiefly Canadian) = parade ground n.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > ceremonial > [noun] > parade > parade-ground
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1945 Toronto Daily Star 29 Mar. 4 Every airman and civilian employee went to the parade square to see 200 air observers and navigators graduate.
1982 G. Lyall Conduct Major Maxim 162 They sat on stubby pillars at the bottom of a short flight of steps leading to the parade square.
Derivatives
paˈradelike adj.
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1897 Daily News 21 May 5/6 The big Greek Krupp guns..disturbed the parade-like movements of the Turks, which, however, were coolly carried out.
1988 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 15 Jan. e14 Director Luis Torner established the episodic, paradelike rhythms and drew several full-bodied performances from his large cast in multiple roles.
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paraden.2
/pəˈrɑːd/, U.S. /pəˈrɑd/ Fencing.
An act of warding off a blow or weapon; = parry n. 2. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > actions
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1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 228 In case the adversary after a finda, going to the parade, discover his brest to caveat.
1692 W. Hope Compl. Fencing-master (ed. 2) 20 The Lessons Defensive are commonly called the Parade.
1699 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §94. 152 Marks, which serve best to shew, what they [sc. men] are..especially when they are not in Parade and upon their Guard.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) There are as many Kinds of Parades as of Strokes and Attacks.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at Guard The word guard is seldom applied among small swordsmen to any position but those of carte and tierce; the other motions of defence are stiled parades.
1834 Encycl. Brit. VI. 502 A parade is a defence of the body, made by an opposition of one's blade to that of an adversary.
1865 tr. E. Erckmann & P. A. Chatrian Waterloo Blockade Phalsburg in C. Gibbon Casquet of Lit. 98 Parade and riposte must have come like lightning.
1988 E. D. Morton Martini A–Z of Fencing 130/2 Parade,..a parry.
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paradev.
/pəˈreɪd/, U.S. /pəˈreɪd/ 1.
a. intransitive. To march in procession or with great display or ostentation; to walk up and down, promenade, etc., in a public place, esp. in order to be seen; to show off. Also figurative.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)] > move or walk ostentatiously
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > for amusement or display
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [verb (intransitive)] > go on parade or procession
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process1814
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. vi. 196 These troops paraded about the hill with great ostentation..practising every art to intimidate us.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) III. xlviii. 27 He paraded through the streets with a thousand banners.
1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family ix. 194 If I had my way, I would parade all the morning up and down the fashionable side of Bond Street.
1813 J. Austen Let. 24 May (1995) 214 I could not but feel that I had naturally small right to be parading about London in a Barouche.
1859 Leisure Hour No. 406. 626 Archy paraded round the table with a huge demijohn made of unglazed brick-earth.
1936 G. Greene in Spectator 23 Oct. 679/2 A spectacular beginning with the Montagues and Capulets parading through pasteboard streets to the same church..for Benediction.
1986 U. Holden Tin Toys ix. 93 Long ago there had been peacocks on the lawns to parade amongst the flowerbeds.
b. transitive. To march through (a place) in procession or with great display; to walk up and down, promenade along (a street, etc.) or through (a place), esp. in order to be seen.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk upon or tread [verb (transitive)] > tread in a stately or affected manner
jet1533
bestrut1594
stalk1610
strut1749
parade1778
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display of [verb (transitive)] > walk in or on ostentatiously
jet1533
parade1778
society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > traverse on foot [verb (transitive)] > for amusement or display
parade1778
promenade1790
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [verb (transitive)] > go through in procession
parade1778
1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 5 She resembles a..cottage-bred Country-housewife..parading the Mall of Taste amidst modern Petits-Maitres.
1792 Observer 24 June 3/1 The great number of unfortunate young women, who nightly parade the streets of this immense metropolis, for the horrid purpose of..prostitution of their persons.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. viii Venus,..in semblance of a blear eyed trull, paraded the battlements of Fort Christina.
1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. ii. vi. 211 Throwing themselves into a procession, they paraded the streets of the city.
1895 Dict. National Biogr. XLIII. 268/2 The mutineers paraded Sheerness with red flags.
1923 Times 15 Jan. 10/4 Bands of ‘storm troops’ paraded the streets, singing the Fascist war songs.
1954 A. K. S. Lambton Islamic Society in Persia 14 Subordinate officials known as pākārs and sar-gazmas paraded the bazaars and streets in the daytime and at night.
1990 J. Harjo In Mad Love & War 45 Children dressed as spirits and monsters suck candy, parade the streets.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)]
brandishc1340
ruffle1484
braga1556
swash1556
flourish1563
flaunt1566
prank1567
prink1573
to shake, wag the feather1581
peacockize1598
air1605
display1608
to launch it out1608
flasha1616
to cut it out1619
flare1633
vapour1652
peacock1654
spark1676
to gallantrize it1693
bosh1709
glare1712
to cut a bosh1726
to show away1728
to figure away, off1749
parade1749
to cut a dashc1771
dash1786
to cut up1787
to cut a flash1795
to make, or cut, a splash1804
swank1809
to come out strong1825
to cut a spludge1831
to cut it (too) fat1836
pavonize1838
splurge1844
to do the grand1847
to cut a swath1848
to cut a splurge1860
to fan out1860
spread1860
skyre1871
fluster1876
to strut one's stuff1926
showboat1937
floss1938
style1968
1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 80 They unlock'd their treasures of conceal'd beauty, and show'd out in the pride of their native charms, ever-more touching surely than when they parade it in the artificial ones of dress and ornament.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. ix. 46 The whole family paraded it together.
1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 110 He paraded and shewed away..concerning the divinely inherent right of monarchs.
1808 ‘P. Plymley’ Two More Lett. on Catholics vi. 9 You parade a great deal upon the vast concessions made by this country to the Irish before the Union.
a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) II. v. 73 Henry drove so well,—so quietly—without making any disturbance, without parading to her, or swearing at them [sc. the horses] . View more context for this quotation
3.
a. transitive. To assemble (troops, etc.) for inspection or review; to cause to go on parade. Also in extended use.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military organization > ceremonial > perform ceremony [verb (transitive)] > review > assemble troops for
paradea1753
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > assemble (people or animals) > for inspection or review
muster1440
paradea1753
a1753 P. Drake Memoirs (1755) II. iii. 73 He [sc. the General] thought me more capable to parade the Workmen, and detach them..for the respective Works.
1799 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 26 The troops were paraded.
1815 J. Pickering in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 3 ii. 505 The general paraded his troops at such a place. This verb is not in the English dictionaries, and I do not recollect hearing it used by Englishmen.
1881 D. G. Rossetti Ballads & Sonnets (1882) 208 While Memory's art Parades the Past before thy face.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right II. xviii. 112 Robbing the mail, and parading every traveller on a certain line of road with almost ludicrous impartiality.
1960 A. Duggan Family Favourites iv. 59 On the next day the Praetorians were paraded in a body to witness [the] punishment.
1994 New Scientist 17 Sept. 18/1 Last week, 22 teams of mechanical engineers paraded their star players on a football pitch in Osaka..to compete in the Techno-soccer Challenge.
b. intransitive. Of troops, etc.: to assemble for parade. Also in extended use.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military organization > ceremonial > perform ceremony [verb (intransitive)] > parade
parade1777
1777 F. Marion in Harper's Mag. (1883) Sept. 546/1 All offrs and men are desired to parade with their side arms at the new barracks.
1811 Gen. Regulations (Army) 102 All Guards are to parade with shouldered Arms.
1846 M. B. Betham-Edwards Jrnl. 26 Dec. in A. R. Johnston et al. Marching with Army of West (1936) 237 We were hardly able to rekindle them [sc. the fires] before we had to parade again, because a sentinel accidentally fired off his gun.
1916 W. Owen Let. 1 Feb. (1967) 377 Of course I ‘paraded sick’, but having no rash, I just have to crouch in my Hut.
1930 E. Raymond Jesting Army iii. ii. 292 The working parties parade under the trees at nine o'clock.
1992 S. Holloway Courage High! iii. 29/1 New uniforms were usually issued in June or July and this was followed by a ‘Day of Marching’ when the entire Brigade paraded before marching through the City in full fig.
4.
a. transitive. To display (a person or thing) ostentatiously; to march (a person) up and down or through the streets, esp. so as to be admired or treated with contempt. Also reflexive.
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society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > expose to public view [verb (transitive)]
to put forth?c1225
to hit out1579
to set a-sunshining1601
to put forward1611
to hold out1613
expose1623
theatrizea1679
produce1686
parade1765
to bring forward1783
society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > traverse on foot [verb (transitive)] > cause to walk or conduct on a walk > in specific manner
parade1765
promenade1795
troop1872
1765 H. Walpole Let. 19 Feb. in Corr. (1941) X. 147 I do not wish you to parade your rubicundity and grey hairs through the mobs and assemblies of London.
1807 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 89 The idea of a chief magistrate parading himself through the several States as an object of public gaze.
1825 T. D. Fosbroke Encycl. Antiq. II. xiii. 617 The old Gauls used to parade a figure of Berecynthia over the fields... This is the Kern, or Cornbaby.
1886 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm.: Suppl. Nights I. 19 They paraded them round about the city, making proclamation before them.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. xiv. 247 When Anstruther had put the last touches to her toilet and paraded her to the others, there was a chorus of enthusiasm.
1971 H. Macmillan Riding Storm iv. 98 Russian weapons were paraded through the streets, and Russian aeroplanes gave a display.
1988 D. Hogan Lebanon Lodge 124 The job in Dublin she turned down to parade herself in a beauty contest.
b. transitive. figurative. To display or hold out (something immaterial) to view; to demonstrate (a quality, fact, etc.) ostentatiously.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display of [verb (transitive)]
flourishc1380
show1509
ostent1531
ostentatec1540
to ruffle it1551
to brave out1581
vaunt1590
boasta1592
venditate1600
to make the most ofa1627
display1628
to make (a) parade of1656
pride1667
sport1684
to show off1750
flash1785
afficher1814
affiche1817
parade1818
flaunt1822
air1867
showboat1937
ponce1953
rock1987
1818 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 32 I thought I would amuse him a little by parading the whole Irish system of things before him.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice II. v. ii. 87 A great man never loses so much as when he exhibits intolerance, or parades the right of persecution.
1865 M. E. Braddon Sir Jasper ii The very last..to parade his feelings..before the eyes of his fellow men.
1933 N. Coward Design for Living i. 22 A silly pride made me show off to you, parade my attraction for you, like a mannequin.
1961 K. Tynan Curtains i. 29 In their respective versions of the two plays, Shaw's and Shakespeare's weaknesses are paraded with a new and quite unexpected clarity.
1989 Daily Tel. 7 Jan. 13/6 Such divisions have always existed; but never before have they been so starkly paraded.
5. intransitive. to parade as: to publicly profess to be; to masquerade as.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > be or go in disguise [verb (intransitive)]
mask1579
mumchance1606
to show (also hang out) false colours1655
masquerade1677
to parade as1887
1887 W. S. Gilbert Ruddigore 11 Whose middle-class lives are embarrassed by wives Who long to parade as ‘My Lady’.
1927 Harper's Mag. Oct. 573/2 At the very least we should have been spared the whited sepulchres that began to parade as the seal and hallmark of sound aesthetics.
1974 R. Heilbroner Human Prospect iv. 115 Another kind of society—one in which it is..perhaps no longer in vogue to set such store by the calculus of selfishness parading as reason.
2000 I. Edward-Jones My Canapé Hell (2001) i. 14 That piss-poor wank-mag that parades as new laddism.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [verb (transitive)] > provide with parade
parade1889
1889 J. J. Hissey Tour in Phaeton 191 The modern part that faces the sea is..paraded, well lighted, well drained.
Derivatives
paˈraded adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adjective] > ostentatiously displayed
show1573
ostentate1615
paraded1855
1855 C. Heavysege Revolt Tartarus 27 With paraded diffidence, suggest From you some worthier choice.
1876 R. Browning Forgiveness 337 Worse than all, Each day's procession, my paraded life Robb'd and impoverished through the wanting wife.
1996 Daily Tel. 30 Aug. 18/6 Whatever a female barrister said last week about it being open season on paraded cleavages, the popular vote is still against public leering.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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