Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A level space used for the assembly and array of troops, as well as for exercises in drilling, marching, etc: same as parade, 4.

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Examples

  • Often he saw these boats turn aside from the street and enter the flooded square that marked the Barracks 'parade-ground.

    THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN 2010

  • Others try to make something tidy and classically restrained out of music that moves from haunted-house creepiness through fractured Viennese waltzes and mandolin serenades to an Elgar-on-steroids, parade-ground finale.

    In performance: Mahler 7 at the BSO Anne Midgette 2010

  • Suddenly, as clearly as if I were on a parade-ground, my ears caught the sound of a bugle-call.

    The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna 2010

  • Troche went on to describe how parade-ground architects found many other opportunities to incorporate the number twelve into their designs.

    HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010

  • For by now April had turned into May, the temperature was sweltering, and there was a hot wind blowing across the Meerut parade-ground and barracks that had nothing to do with the weather.

    Fiancée 2010

  • Waterfield gave him the "present" and "fire", and the single demonstration shot cracked across the great parade-ground.

    Fiancée 2010

  • He pulled himself to attention and announced in his best parade-ground voice:

    A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010

  • Troche went on to describe how parade-ground architects found many other opportunities to incorporate the number twelve into their designs.

    HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010

  • In the past, McChrystal has often expressed unease with the pomp and circumstance of the institutional Army, and he tried to avoid a big parade-ground send-off in favor of something quieter and low-key.

    Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's retirement ceremony marked by laughter and regret 2010

  • He was dead right about the vermin, but Russell wouldn't have it; he claimed this was just stiff-necked parade-ground nonsense and red tape on Raglan's part, and wrote as much.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

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