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What is a cortege?

What is a cortege? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A ceremonial procession, especially for a wedding or funeral or following a king.
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The priest or minister of a religious group generally leads the funeral and burial services, with a funeral cortege accompanying the deceased to the cemetery.
In scattered groups on either side of the funeral cortege, women cried out as if for a beloved relative.
In fact, since the mid-2000s at least, all the major global players, at their head of course the United States and its cortege of Western countries, do no more than give out information, or gesticulate.
A huge crowd and an official delegation from Senegal accompanied the cortege to the Invalides chapel.
In some later engravings, the orchestra accompanying the funeral cortege is made up not of skeletons but of animal musicians.
During the Picpus program last year from a distance I saw the cortege of an admiral, who was buried just to one side of Lafayette's tomb.

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