cortege
Other forms: corteges
A group of people following solemnly behind, whether they're a celebrity's handlers or a funeral procession, is a cortege.
A movie star may have a cortege of hair stylists, assistants, and agents—you can also call this an entourage or a retinue. A funeral procession, the group of mourners that walks or rides in cars to a cemetery, is another kind of cortege. The French source, cortège, means "train of attendants," from the Italian corte, "court," and the Latin root cohors, "retinue."
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the group following and attending to some important person
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a funeral processiontype of:processionthe group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation
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