-cade, suffix
Taken by a false division of cavalcade n. and used in various Combs., as aquacade, motorcade, etc., in the sense ‘a procession, a show’. Chiefly U.S.
| 1936 Mencken Amer. Lang. (ed. 4) v. ii. 180 In the case of motorcade, autocade, camelcade and aerocade,..a new suffix, -cade, seems to have come in. |