Parade

There is left round about the circuit of the whole quarter, a parallell on all sides some 200, or 250 foote betweene the front of the quarter and the trench, called an Alarme Place, for the souldiers to draw out into Armes, into Parade, or when any Alarme or commotion happens...

And from thir Ivorie Port the Cherubim Forth issuing at th’accustomd hour stood armd To thir night watches in warlike Parade, When Gabriel to his next in power thus spake...

See how the Flow’rs, as at Parade, Under their Colours stand displaid: Each Regiment in order grows, That of the Tulip Pinke and Rose.

The next night the soldiers began teaching the girls to dance... Claude saw that a good deal was going on, and he lectured his men at parade. But he realized that he might as well scold at the sparrows.

Verrall... seldom put on his uniform for morning parade, not thinking it necessary with mere Military Policemen.

A military parade is really a kind of ritual dance, something like a ballet, expressing a certain philosophy of life. The goose-step, for instance, is one of the most horrible sights in the world, far more terrifying than a dive-bomber. It is simply an affirmation of naked power; contained in it, quite consciously and intentionally, is the vision of a boot crashing down on a face. Its ugliness is part of its essence...

They went up with a Parade of 9 or 10 Coaches.

When a procession is exceptionally large it is called a Parade.

The strikers had announced a parade for Tuesday morning, but Colonel Nixon had forbidden it, the newspapers said.

The author became aware of the term "beadwhore" while viewing a Mardi Gras parade[…] You can't catch anything with those beadwhores around. Even cute kids on the shoulders of their fathers can't compete with boobs.

Thanksgiving Day parade

Mummers Parade

ticker-tape parade

The Parade of the Marksmen at the Hanover Schützenfest each July is one of the longest regular parades in the world.

Parade, is a Military word, signifying the Place where Troops usually draw together, in order to mount the Guards, or for any other Service.

When Barracks are occupied by Troops, the Yards and Parades are to be swept, rolled, and kept clean by them.

This Square is calcled the Parade.

...at no great distance from them, where the shoreline curved round, and formed a long riband of shade upon the horizon, a series of points of yellow light began to start into existence, denoting the spot to be the site of Budmouth, where the lamps were being lighted along the parade.

Glasgow's most fashionable Sunday parade, the ‘crawl’ on Great Western-road.

After walking a mile or two farther, they found that the shore was beginning to be formally embanked, so as to form something like a parade; the ugly lamp-posts became less few and far between and more ornamental, though quite equally ugly.

His shop is located in Chester Pde.

While my mother and sisters decorated our sukkah and cooked meals for the parade of guests who would soon come to visit, my father would walk the streets of our neighborhood, shopping for the "Four Species"

The Commanding Officer is then to direct the Parade to Order Arms.

We saw a great Parade or kind of Meeting.

‘Did she go into that parade of people?’ said Ingram.

...the ravishing assault of a well-disciplined diction, in a parade of curiosly-mustered words in their several ranks and files...

Parade (Fr.), an appearance or shew, a bravado or vaunting offer.

Formes little Different from those of a Gally, to no more Thriving an Intention in reference to the Publick, Then Apothecaries paynt and adorn their Shops which is to delude the Ignorant, and hide from Inspection such Arts as lye more in Parade then Substance.

...the most virtuous and laudable deed that his whole Life could make any parade of...

What good Conduct does he shew! what Patience exercise! what Subtilty leave untry’d! what Concealment of his Faults! what Parade of his Vertues! what Government of his Passions!

Be rich, but of your Wealth make no Parade; At least, before your Master’s Debts are paid.

... with all his good and agreeable qualities, there was a sort of parade in his speeches which was very apt to incline her to laugh.

Another answers, ‘Let him be, ⁠He loves to make parade of pain, ⁠That with his piping he may gain The praise that comes to constancy.’

Under all her parade of gallantry he divined a great weariness of spirit, a great longing to be at peace with the world...

... he applied himself to his Bible morning and night. Its narratives frankly puzzled him—the parade of bearded kings and prophets, their curious ravings.

Roy: The work was fiiine. There was nothing wrong with the work. But they caught him... He pissed in the sink. Jen: Oh. Oh! Roy: Yeah... Jen: Which sink? Roy: All the sinks. Yeah, he basically went on a pee parade around the house. Jen: Oh God, I have to fire him.

... there was a degree of order in the books, a parade of Loeb classics, archaeology, ancient history.

The dinner was a parade of courses, each featuring foods more elaborate than the last.

Most new shopping centres... have broken away from the old strip parades which usually face each other across heavy inter-town traffic.

Scottish Programme Parade

Listen to your regional Programme Parade at 8.10 a.m. daily.

... the other three Companies were ordained by foure a clocke afternoone, to parade in the Market place, and afterwards to march to their Post...

Hooper had been detailed to inspect the lines. The company was parading at 0730 hours with their kit-bags piled before the huts.

Here it was we made our camp, within plain view of Stirling Castle, whence we could hear the drums beat as some part of the garrison paraded.

No one fights a war in close-order formations any more but officers still love to force their men to parade, coming up with various plausible excuses for their enjoyment of command.

After the field show, it is customary to parade the stands before exiting the field.

“What a delightful place Bath is,” said Mrs. Allen as they sat down near the great clock, after parading the room till they were tired;

At one o’clock the troops were to come in; at two they were to be marshalled; till four they were to parade the parish; […]

... since it was no longer possible for him to parade the streets of the town, and be hailed with respect in the usual haunts of his leisure, this sailor felt himself destitute indeed.

They said nothing, but stared at each other with the horror of people exposed to all the torture of the demons who parade the African continent.

The whole family paraded it together.

... it was her favorite amusement to array herself in the faded brocades, and parade up and down before the long mirror, making stately curtsies, and sweeping her train about with a rustle which delighted her ears.

[...] if you’re going to parade around with that robe hanging open you’re going to get yourself some bronchitis.

... Mrs. Parsons, the principal’s wife, would play the graduation march while the lower-grade graduates paraded down the aisles and took their seats below the platform.

Stretcher after stretcher paraded into the lot—I was aghast; there seemed no end to them.

That evening the van of the Party for the Poor also paraded our street. They too blared music and made identical claims.

Nearer to the water pink-footed geese and white-faced coots paraded in the groves of rhus and bamboo.

In a few moments, we were paraded in the frigate’s gangway; the first lieutenant—an elderly yellow-faced officer, in an ill-cut coat and tarnished gold lace—coming up, and frowning upon us.

The men were paraded and briefly addressed by the colonel in my presence...

... For she was not a sentimental mourner, Parading all her sensibility...

I doubt if any woman on earth has gotten better effects than she has with black, white and red. Not only that, she knows how to parade it when she gets it on.

[...] I am sure neither of us cares to parade family business in a lawsuit.

Like the railwayman, the industrialist who has set himself up with his own prestige fleet of shining lorries parading his name up and down the country, and has installed a transport manager to look after them, demands full utilisation of both...

I felt a bit like a hunter who’s captured a unicorn and parades it through the town streets [...]

They’re parading ad men through Congress to convince the lawmakers that Free Market is the way to go, and that Harry Truman is in league with Karl Marx.

They kidnapped an Indian officer and beheaded him, bringing the head back to be paraded in the bazaars of Kotlin in Pakistani Kashmir.

They paraded dozens of fashions past the crowd.

The modern part that faces the sea is... paraded, well lighted, well drained.

...in case the adversary after a finda, going to the parade, discover his brest to caveat...

[The Tutor] should accustom him to make as much as is possible a true Judgment of Men by those Marks which serve best to shew what they are, and give a Prospect into their Inside, which often shews it self in little Things, especially when they are not in Parade, and upon their Guard.