Definitions for cortege

cortege cor·tege

Spelling: [kawr-tezh, -teyzh]
IPA: /kɔrˈtɛʒ, -ˈteɪʒ/

Cortege is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in cortege (ceegort).

Definitions for cortege

noun

  1. a procession, especially a ceremonial one:
  2. a line or train of attendants; retinue.

Origin of cortege

1670-80; French Italian corteggio courtly retinue, derivative of corteggiare to court, itself derivative of corte court

Examples for cortege

But it was merely the ushers opening a passage for the cortege.

Every exit had been cut off to bottle up the Imperial cortege.

I had a brother who died on Ninth, but I met the cortege at Eighth.

The cortege was of great length, and splendid in its appointments.

Such of his family as shared his captivity brought up the cortege.

Ption and Barnave, were waiting to take the direction of the cortege.

A policeman stopped traffic on Palmetto for the cortege and second line to pass, and in a better street, people broke out dancing.

That night the white people left the stockade in a cortege of torch bearers.

In accordance with the Italian custom, the cortege marched quickly.

The other barges in the cortege were rowed by Greenwich pensioners.

Word Value for cortege
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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