Crossword-Solution: CORTEGES 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Even a funeral is comparatively dull without the military band and the four-and-four processions, and the cities where these resplendent corteges of woes are of daily occurrence are cheerful cities.

Thus, it often happened that collisions occurred between the corteges of hostile feudatories, and it was to prevent these sanguinary encounters that the Tokugawa set strict limits to the number of samurai accompanying a military chief.

The little room was bare of decoration except for some colored lithographs and wood-cuts, which for the most part represented the funeral corteges of distinguished Americans, with a few hospital scenes and the sinking of a steamship.

Eight "Routes Royales" crossed the province in old monarchical days, and where once rolled princely corteges now whiz automobiles without count.