cortège

cortège (plural cortèges)

1. Alternative spelling of cortege
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 293:

     On Madame de Mercœur's arrival at the palace she found the carriage and guards in waiting, the Queen having decided that she would do her niece the honour of going to meet her. ...The cortège proceeded about a mile, when a courier announced the Princess's approach, who arrived almost as soon. The carriage, which was at full gallop, stopped suddenly; the guards deployed round, and Mademoiselle alighted.

   • 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 106:

     We crowd outside to wait for the funeral cortège. We know this is an important death.

Unadapted borrowing from French cortège, from Italian corteggio, from Italian corteggiare, from Latin cortem, from Latin cors, an alternative form of Latin cohors, which is a compound of co- (see cum) and -hors (see hortus).

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔrˈtɛː.ʒə/

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• Hyphenation: cor‧tè‧ge

cortège n or m (plural cortèges, diminutive cortègetje n)

1. cortege

Borrowed from Italian corteggio.

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.tɛʒ/

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cortège m (plural cortèges)

1. procession

   Synonym: procession

• “cortège”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.