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Flat :: Flat (n.) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions..

Cortege :: Cortege (n.) A train of attendants; a procession.

Manducus :: Manducus (n.) A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage..

Beadle :: Beadle (v.) An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students..

Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..

Stationed :: Station (n.) One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station o

Phallus :: Phallus (n.) The emblem of the generative power in nature, carried in procession in the Bacchic orgies, or worshiped in various ways..

Processional :: Processional (n.) A service book relating to ecclesiastical processions.

Splendid :: Splendid (a.) Showy; magnificent; sumptuous; pompous; as, a splendid palace; a splendid procession or pageant..

Cavalcade :: Cavalcade (n.) A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade..

Triumph :: Triumph (n.) Hence, any triumphal procession; a pompous exhibition; a stately show or pageant..

Procession :: Procession (v. i.) To honor with a procession.

Cresset :: Cresset (n.) An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions..

Whiffler :: Whiffler (n.) An officer who went before procession to clear the way by blowing a horn, or otherwise; hence, any person who marched at the head of a procession; a harbinger..

Cross-week :: Cross-week (n.) Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions..

Processioner :: Processioner (n.) An officer appointed to procession lands.

Procession :: Procession (n.) That which is moving onward in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a ceremonious train; a retinue; as, a procession of mourners; the Lord Mayor's procession..

Processionary :: Processionary (a.) Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service..

Processioner :: Processioner (n.) A manual of processions; a processional.

Pompous :: Pompous (a.) Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession..

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