cortege

[US]/kɔ:ˈteiʒ/
[UK]/kɔr'teʒ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. procession, groupe d'accompagnateurs.
Word Forms
Plurielcorteges

Example Sentences

a cortege of mourners

un cortège de personnes endeuillées

Real-world Examples

Along the royal mile thousands waited to see the cortege.

Le long du Royal Mile, des milliers de personnes attendaient de voir le cortège.

Source: VOA Standard English_Europe

In 2002, at 12.45 pm, a Lancaster bomber and two Spitfires flew over the cortege for his wife and dipped their wings.

En 2002, à 12h45, un bombardier Lancaster et deux Spitfires survolèrent le cortège pour sa femme et inclinèrent leurs ailes.

Source: The Guardian (Article Version)

His cortege travelled through the streets after the 60-year-old had been lying in state where thousands queued to file past his coffin.

Son cortège traversa les rues après que l'homme de 60 ans eut été exposé dans un cercueil où des milliers de personnes faisaient la queue pour passer devant son cercueil.

Source: BBC World Headlines

She could not have conceivedof a more desolate cortege.

Elle n'aurait jamais pu imaginer un cortège plus désolé.

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Knight and Stephen went outside, and came close to the procession as it moved off. A carriage belonging to the cortege turned round close to a lamp.

Knight et Stephen sortirent et se rapprochèrent de la procession alors qu'elle s'éloignait. Un calèche appartenant au cortège fit demi-tour près d'un lampadaire.

Source: A pair of blue eyes (Part 2)

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