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| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| basement (ˈbeɪsmənt) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. Compare cellar a partly or wholly underground storey of a building, esp the one immediately below the main floor |
| b. (as modifier): a basement flat | |
| 2. | the foundation or substructure of a wall or building |
| 3. | geology a part of the earth's crust formed of hard igneous or metamorphic rock that lies beneath the cover of soft sedimentary rock, sediment, and soil |