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pageant
[ paj-uhnt ]
noun
- an elaborate public spectacle illustrative of the history of a place, institution, or the like, often given in dramatic form or as a procession of colorful floats.
- a costumed procession, masque, allegorical tableau, or the like forming part of public or social festivities.
- a show or exhibition, especially one consisting of a succession of participants or events:
a beauty pageant.
- something comparable to a procession in colorful variety, splendor, or grandeur:
the pageant of Renaissance history.
- a pretentious display or show that conceals a lack of real importance or meaning.
- (in medieval times) a platform or stage, usually moving on wheels, on which scenes from mystery plays were presented.
- display or pageantry.
- Obsolete. a stage bearing any kind of spectacle.
pageant
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noun
- an elaborate colourful parade or display portraying scenes from history, esp one involving rich costume
- any magnificent or showy display, procession, etc
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Origin of pageant1
Example Sentences
The program culminates in a an outreach activity, a digital media project and a pageant during the organization's annual Black Queer Advancement Festival, slated for the final week of April.
She said she hopes in a few years people entering beauty pageants without make-up could "be the norm", bringing pageants "out of the dark ages".
Brooks the opportunity to create a pageant of flamboyant international garb, designed to lay unmistakable claim to new cultural identities.
His inauguration unfolded like a grotesque pageant, a theater of excess where power and cruelty met on a stage gilded in vulgarity.
She has also competed in international pageants and won the title of Miss Voluptuous Wales.
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