2. (Mil.) An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of
troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions
before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades
are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or
company), according to the force assembled.
3. Pompous show; formal display or exhibition.
Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade. --Swift.
4. That which is displayed; a show; a spectacle; an imposing
procession; the movement of any body marshaled in military
order; as, a parade of firemen.
In state returned the grand parade. --Swift.
5. Posture of defense; guard. [A Gallicism.]
When they are not in parade, and upon their guard.
--Locke.
6. A public walk; a promenade.
{Dress parade}, {Undress parade}. See under {Dress}, and
{Undress}.
{Parade rest}, a position of rest for soldiers, in which,
however, they are required to be silent and motionless.
--Wilhelm.
Syn: Ostentation; display; show.
Usage: {Parade}, {Ostentation}. Parade is a pompous
exhibition of things for the purpose of display;
ostentation now generally indicates a parade of
virtues or other qualities for which one expects to be
honored. ``It was not in the mere parade of royalty
that the Mexican potentates exhibited their power.''
--Robertson. ``We are dazzled with the splendor of
titles, the ostentation of learning, and the noise of
victories.'' --Spectator.
Parading all her sensibility. --Byron.
2. To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or
march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops.
2. To assemble in military order for evolutions and
inspection; to form or march, as in review.