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Definition of Dress parade
Dress parade Parade Pa*rade", n. [F., fr. Sp. parada a halt or stopping, an
assembling for exercise, a place where troops are assembled
to exercise, fr. parar to stop, to prepare. See Pare, v.
t.]
1. The ground where a military display is held, or where
troops are drilled.
2. (Mil.) 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.
3. Pompous show; formal display or exhibition.
Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade. --Swift.
4. 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.
5. Posture of defense; guard. [A Gallicism.]
When they are not in parade, and upon their guard.
--Locke.
6. 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.
Syn: Ostentation; display; show.
Usage: Parade, Ostentation. Parade is a pompous
exhibition of things for the purpose of display;
ostentation now generally indicates a parade of
virtues or other qualities for which one expects to be
honored. ``It was not in the mere parade of royalty
that the Mexican potentates exhibited their power.'
--Robertson. ``We are dazzled with the splendor of
titles, the ostentation of learning, and the noise of
victories.' --Spectator.
