▪ I. parading, vbl. n.
(pəˈreɪdɪŋ)
[f. parade v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb parade; mustering of soldiers; promenading; showing off, etc. Also attrib.
| 1686 tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 208 The Parading Place that is before it, serves also for a publick meeting Place. 1765 C. Smart Phædrus viii. 28, I value not thy gasconading, Nor all thy alamode parading. c 1817 Hogg Tales & Sk. I. 86 There was a great deal of parading, and noise..of beating drums. |
▪ II. paˈrading, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That parades; marching up and down; showing off, given to display, etc.
| 1777 F. Burney Early Diary July, She is parading and tolerably uncultivated as to books. 1816 Chalmers Astron. Disc. vii. (1830) 284 It may have been a piece of parading insignificance. 1902 Daily Chron. 18 Mar. 8/2 The parading bands are now passing along in silence. |
Hence paˈradingly adv.
| 1841 W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. 96 All that the spirit of liberty had honoured, were protected and brought paradingly forward. |