variants
or less commonly cortège
1
: a train of attendants : retinue
2
: procession
especially
: a funeral procession
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Examples of cortege in a Sentence
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
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On Tuesday, several hearses and funeral corteges were seen at key locations in St. Petersburg, as local media scrambled to find the location of Prigozhin’s funeral.
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Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
Israeli police are still investigating the circumstances of the deaths, which came after Hamas’s massacre of over 1,400 people a few days earlier, and the Israeli military had instructed the mayor to change the route of the cortege from the hospital to avoid inflaming the situation further.
—Jared Malsin, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
Another funeral cortege with three hearses drew up at Beloostrovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg, after it was seen at the manège of the First Cadet Corps, where security guards shooed away journalists and members of the public.
—Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
After a private funeral, the cortege passed slowly through the seaside town where O'Connor had lived.
—Harold Maass, The Week, 9 Aug. 2023
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Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
Israeli police are still investigating the circumstances of the deaths, which came after Hamas’s massacre of over 1,400 people a few days earlier, and the Israeli military had instructed the mayor to change the route of the cortege from the hospital to avoid inflaming the situation further.
—Jared Malsin, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
Another funeral cortege with three hearses drew up at Beloostrovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg, after it was seen at the manège of the First Cadet Corps, where security guards shooed away journalists and members of the public.
—Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
After a private funeral, the cortege passed slowly through the seaside town where O'Connor had lived.
—Harold Maass, The Week, 9 Aug. 2023
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“Cortege.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cortege. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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cortege
noun
cor·tege
variants
also cortège
kȯr-ˈtezh 
ˈkȯr-ˌtezh
1
: a group of attendants : retinue
2
: procession sense 2
especially
: a funeral procession
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