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To walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner, or with warlike parade. Swift.

The quality or state of being rubicund; ruddiness. To parade your rubicundity and gray hairs. Walpole.

Proud or ostentatious display; parade; pomp. I envy none their pageantry and show. Young.

In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.

The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.

Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like. "Rejoice in splendor of mine own." Shak.

ck brokers. By 1980 largely superseded by electronic stock quotation devices. ticker tape parade A parade to honor a person, held in New York City, during which people in the tall buildings of Manhattan throw large quantities of paper, confetti, paper ribbons, or the like onto the parading group. The name comes form th…

der Normal, a. -- Training day, a day on which a military company assembles for drill or parade. [U. S.] -- Training ship, a vessel on board of which boys are trained as sailors.

n authorized habitual dress of officers and soldiers, but not full-dress uniform. Undress parade (Mil.), a substitute for dress parade, allowed in bad weather, the companies forming without arms, and the ceremony being shortened.