MEANING
1. A solemn procession, especially one accompanying a funeral.
2. An entourage or retinue accompanying a person, especially someone of rank.
Use it for
Collective mourning in motion, rank displayed through procession.Connect landscape and social order through the route and arrangement of mourners.
Words that belong together
- funeral cortege
- follow the cortege
- slow-moving cortege
On the page
The cortege crossed the bridge in complete silence.
From an upstairs window she watched the cortege leave the estate.
Rain scattered the flowers along the cortege's route.
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Word forms
- Base
- cortege
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Often funerary; cortège is an accented spelling. Not necessarily motor vehicles. Plural corteges; accented cortège, cortèges.
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