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Everywhere we went we encountered hordes of people, scurrying about their business, grim-faced.†
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hordes = large numbers
Hordes of well-to-do young Iranians traveled abroad in those years.†
"But this" he gestured to the horde of unsmiling Iranians scurrying through the streets of the ayatollah's Islamic Republic "is not what we wanted."†

horde = a large number
Reeling from this assault of compliments, I went to the kitchen, concerned that I did not have enough food for the horde of unexpected guests.†

Definitions:

(1) (horde)
a very large number -- typically of people, animals, or insects on the move
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)