PARADE

The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.

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.

Pompous show; formal display or exhibition. Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade. Swift.

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.

Posture of defense; guard. [A Gallicism.] When they are not in parade, and upon their guard. Locke.

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.

To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off. Parading all her sensibility. Byron.

To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops.

To make an exhibition or spectacle of one's self, as by walking in a public place.

To assemble in military order for evolutions and inspection; to form or march, as in review.