Word of the Day for Wednesday April 20, 2005 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 _________________________________________________________ Cavalcade derives from Old Italian cavalcata, from cavalcare, "to go on horseback," from Late Latin caballicare, from Latin caballus, "horse." References 1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374123837/ref%3Dnosim/lexico 2. http://www.usnews.com/ Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=9&q=cavalcade