Parade
A defile ( Parade ) ( fr. Défilé from fil "thread") is generally a parade. In German, defilee describes a solemn passing (in contrast to an orderly march ) by individuals or groups of people to high-ranking personalities. The defiling course is the festive, solemn strolling past a host.
At church festivals such as Corpus Christi , in addition to the Corpus Christi procession, there is a church parade in many places before and after the service , in which dignitaries and representatives of the local associations organize a parade to and from the church with flags and music.
A special form of a parade is the funeral parade with laying out the coffin.
The originally military parade ( military parade ) has partly developed into a civil mass event:
Word origin
In the military language of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Défilé (not the more recent Germanization Defilee ) was a bottleneck at which the marching formation had to line up in a "snake" (French: file ) in order to be able to pass it. B. a ravine, a ravine, a bridge, but also the narrow streets of a village. After passing the bottleneck, the snake (the line ) dissolves again (dé-filé) , either to re-form ( column ) or to swarm out ( debouching , from French bouche "mouth").
