cortège
Solemn trailing parade
A cortège is a formal procession, especially one accompanying a funeral: The cortège wound slowly through the streets to the cemetery.
The word can also refer to any ceremonial train of attendants accompanying an important person: the president's cortège.
The spelling cortege, without the accent, is also common.
Vehicle transporting caskets
- pallbearersFuneral procession carriers
- mournersThose lamenting a death
- casketBurial container
- processionFormal moving line
burial · interment · eulogy · requiem · shroud · pall · cemetery · graveside
Ceremonial traveling procession
- paradeCeremonial public procession
- convoyGuarded traveling group
- motorcadeProcession of official vehicles
- marchRhythmic group walk
column · file · train · line · pageant · caravan · promenade · ceremonial
Attendants of dignitaries
- attendantsPeople who assist others
- escortsThose who accompany others
- followersPeople who support someone
- companionsThose who accompany
staff · bodyguards · aides · advisers · delegation · court · posse · associates
hearse
Vehicle transporting caskets
- pallbearersFuneral procession carriers
- mournersThose lamenting a death
- casketBurial container
procession · burial · interment · eulogy · requiem · shroud · pall · cemetery · graveside · memorial
cavalcade
Ceremonial traveling procession
- paradeCeremonial public procession
- convoyGuarded traveling group
- motorcadeProcession of official vehicles
march · column · file · train · line · pageant · caravan · promenade · ceremonial · marchers
retinue
Attendants of dignitaries
- attendantsPeople who assist others
- escortsThose who accompany others
- followersPeople who support someone
companions · staff · bodyguards · aides · advisers · delegation · court · posse · associates · supporters
cortègevictory parade
Ceremonial march for winners
triumph · ticker-tape parade · Mardi Gras parade · carnival parade · triumphal procession
cortègestampede
Frenzied mass flight
rout · dispersal · scattering · reception line · exodus