memorial march
Funeral-paced walking tribute
A memorial march is a solemn procession honoring the dead, typically featuring slow, measured steps and often accompanied by mournful music.
Such marches occur at funerals, remembrance ceremonies, or anniversaries of tragedies: The memorial march proceeded through the streets on the tenth anniversary of the bombing.
The term also applies to musical compositions written for such occasions.
- funeralService honoring the dead
- processionFormal moving line
- solemnSerious and dignified
- drumsStruck membrane instruments
- dirgeMournful commemorative music
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- commemorationsremembrance, centennial, bicentennial, sesquicentennial, tricentennial
- memorialsmemorials, gravestone, monument, headstone, commemorations
- processionsparade, procession, funeral procession, military parade, motorcade
- protestdemonstration, walkout, picket, sit-in, candlelight vigil
- protestsprotest, demonstration, demonstrations, rallies, mass protest
- funeral processionhearse, cortege, funeral procession, pallbearers, pallbearer
memorial marchvictory parade
Ceremonial march for winners
carnival parade · ticker-tape parade · Mardi Gras parade · triumphal march · homecoming parade
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