One day, a young officer who had lost his temper during the parade threatened to hit him with a whip. The event took place on two ballrooms, not one, so that the rolling parade of speakers would not be slowed down by lunch. The fact that the day after the penalty parade was a Sunday brought a certain relaxation of discipline. On Tuesday, we will have a beautiful Veterans Day parade again in mid-Manhattan. „Parade of Identification.“ Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/identification%20parade. Retrieved 21 October 2022. Women also want a hot young thing running on their arms. Circus parades have often become as important a spectacle as the show itself; a defile of Barnum and Bailey stretched for three miles. Subscribe to America`s largest dictionary and get thousands of other definitions and an advanced search – ad-free! The advantage of a 9/11 parade is that it would remind everyone that the war began with an attack on America. Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press! Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your go-to guide to problems in English.