parade

noun

• 1a public procession, especially one celebrating a special day or event and including marching bands and floats.
• a formal march or gathering of troops for inspection or display.
• a series of people or things appearing or being displayed one after the other:the parade of Hollywood celebrities who troop onto his show

• 2a parade ground.
• British a public square or promenade.
• British a row of stores:a shopping parade

verb

• walk or march in public in a formal procession or in an ostentatious or attention-seeking way: [no object]:officers will parade through the town center [with object]:carefree young men were parading the streets
• [with object] display (someone or something) while marching or moving around a place:guards dragged him from his home and paraded him through the streets
• [with object] display (something) publicly in order to impress or attract attention:he paraded his knowledge
• (parade as) appear falsely as; masquerade as:these untruths parading as history
• (of troops) assemble for a formal inspection or ceremonial occasion:the recruits were due to parade that day