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   Word of the Day for Saturday March 2, 2002:

   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/


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