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Word of the Day for Saturday March 2, 2002:

cavalcade \kav-uhl-KAYD; KAV-uhl-kayd\, noun:
1. A procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages.
2. Any procession.
3. A sequence; a series.

Behind him he sensed the progress of the cavalcade as one
by one the carriages wheeled off the Dublin road.
--Stella Tillyard, [1]Citizen Lord: The Life of Edward
Fitzgerald, Irish Revolutionary

Last week, Seoul pleaded for immediate financial assistance
from the United States and Japan, following a cavalcade of
bad economic news.
--Steven Butler and Jack Egan, "No magic won for Korea,"
[2]U.S. News, December 22, 1997
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Cavalcade derives from Old Italian cavalcata, from cavalcare,
"to go on horseback," from Late Latin caballicare, from Latin
caballus, "horse."

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1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374123837/ref%3Dnosim/lexico
2. http://www.usnews.com/


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