Steve Erickson

Downton Abbey' is a pageant, a cavalcade of a time when being born right is the first and most irrevocable career move, and in which an older order - whose passing 'Downton's' creator, Julian Fellowes, clearly mourns - is submerging in icy seas as surely as a grand and extravagant ocean liner.

American Novelist

Julian Sands

The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.

British Actor

Cavalcades are organized with a focus on orderliness and often perceived as grand or elegant.

Grandeur and Order

The term can now refer to any ordered sequence of vehicles or people, not just on horseback.

Broad Interpretation

Cavalcade can be used metaphorically to describe a series of any notable things or events.

Metaphorical Use

Perfect for describing modern parades beyond traditional contexts.

Modern Parades

Often found in academic texts to describe a series of historical or scholarly events.

Academic Context

Implies a structured and often chronological progression of items or events.

Structured Progression

Useful in storytelling to indicate a series of scenes or events that are connected.

Sequential Storytelling

 a fact we were unaware of, until after the miserable wretches turned beneath the hooves of our cavalcade. The eyeless sockets of the pack animals everywhere account for the myriads of ravens along the road. The inhumanity which this trail has been witness to, the heartbreak and suffering which so many have undergone,