parading

Verb

parade (third-person singular simple present parades, present participle parading, simple past and past participle paraded)

1. (intransitive) To assemble for inspection, to receive orders, etc.
   • ... the other three Companies were ordained by foure a clocke afternoone, to parade in the Market place, and afterwards to march to their Post...1637, Robert Monro, Monro His Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment, page 64
2. (intransitive) To march impressively or ostentatiously.
   • Here it was we made our camp, within plain view of Stirling Castle, whence we could hear the drums beat as some part of the garrison paraded.1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 26, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC
3. (intransitive, transitive) To march past.
   • After the field show, it is customary to parade the stands before exiting the field.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To march through or along.
   • “What a delightful place Bath is,” said Mrs. Allen as they sat down near the great clock, after parading the room till they were tired;1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December...
5. (figuratively, intransitive) Synonym of promenade: to walk up and down, especially in public in order to show off and be seen by others.
   • The whole family paraded it together.1753, Samuel Richardson, History of Sir Charles Grandison, volume V, page 46

   Synonyms:

   flaunt, promenade

6. (figuratively, intransitive, transitive) To move slowly through or among.
   • That evening the van of the Party for the Poor also paraded our street. They too blared music and made identical claims.1991, Ben Okri, The Famished Road, Section 2, Book 6, Chapter 10

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