cortege
pronunciation
How to pronounce cortege in British English:
UK [kɔ:ˈteiʒ]
How to pronounce cortege in American English:
US [kɔrˈtɛʒ]
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- Noun:
- a funeral procession
- the group following and attending to some important person
Word Origin
- cortege
- cortege: see court
- cortege (n.)
- 1640s, "train of attendants," from French cortège (16c.), from Italian corteggio "retinue," from corte "court," from Latin cohortem (see court (n.)).
Example
- 1. No people would crowd the streets in the rain to see his funeral cortege .
- 2. A cortege of pastel-coloured vw beetles , driven mostly by young girls , proceeded past in stately single file , running red lights to stay in formation .
- 3. Oral english teaching is always rather weak during the whole process of cortege teaching .
- 4. Mourners react as the repatriation cortege carrying seven british soldiers passes through the town of wootton bassett in western england .
- 5. In fact , since the mid-2000s at least , all the major global players , at their head of course the united states and its cortege of western countries , do no more than give out information , or gesticulate .