cortege
nounUK /kɔɹˈtɛʒ/ · US /ˈkɔɹ.tɛʒ/
Etymology Borrowed from French cortège.
1
A ceremonial procession, especially for a wedding or funeral or following a monarch.
- Upon the morrow after their marriage, the bride and bridegroom perambulate the streets, followed by a numerous cortege, the guests at the wedding festival, two and two1660 February 2 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “January 24th, 1659–1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume (please specify |volume=I to X), London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893–1899, →OCLC: