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cortege

noun

cor·​tege kȯr-ˈtezh How to pronounce cortege (audio)
ˈkȯr-ˌtezh
variants or less commonly cortège
1
: a train of attendants : retinue
2
: procession
especially : a funeral procession

Example Sentences

the movie star's cortege included her hair stylist, makeup artist, personal assistant, and press agent the funeral cortege of mourners stretched for three city blocks
Recent Examples on the Web As the funeral cortege passed the palace, the monarch led her family out to the gates. Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2022 The funeral cortege arrived from Mironov’s hometown, Novomoskovsk, where mourners gathered outside his home to pay respects before setting off for the cemetery. Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022 The assault occurred outside a hospital in East Jerusalem, where Ms. Abu Akleh’s body had been kept since another memorial on Thursday, and where hundreds had gathered to witness the start of her funeral cortege. New York Times, 13 May 2022 And two other crossings, the old Aqueduct Bridge in Georgetown, and the former Highway Bridge at 14th Street, had to be used by the cortege and the crowds to reach the cemetery. Michael E. Ruane, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Nov. 2021 The procession is solemn, a funeral cortege in words, all the more poignant for the absence of public remembrances. Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2021 At dusk, after climbing along the switchbacks that wind through Guatemala’s western highlands, the cortege of vehicles carrying 12 of the coffins arrived in Comitancillo. New York Times, 21 Mar. 2021 This important book reads like the slow passing of a long and demented cortege. New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020 Passions were running so high that more than fifty people were killed and hundreds injured in a stampede around the funeral cortege. Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

French cortège, from Italian corteggio, from corteggiare to court, from corte court, from Latin cohort-, cohors enclosure — more at court

First Known Use

1648, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of cortege was in 1648

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