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pageant

[ paj-uhnt ]

noun

  1. 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.
  2. a costumed procession, masque, allegorical tableau, or the like forming part of public or social festivities.
  3. a show or exhibition, especially one consisting of a succession of participants or events:

    a beauty pageant.

  4. something comparable to a procession in colorful variety, splendor, or grandeur:

    the pageant of Renaissance history.

  5. a pretentious display or show that conceals a lack of real importance or meaning.
  6. (in medieval times) a platform or stage, usually moving on wheels, on which scenes from mystery plays were presented.
  7. display or pageantry.
  8. Obsolete. a stage bearing any kind of spectacle.


pageant

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noun

  1. an elaborate colourful parade or display portraying scenes from history, esp one involving rich costume
  2. any magnificent or showy display, procession, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pageant1

1350–1400; Middle English pagyn, pagaunt, pagand < Anglo-Latin ±èÄå²µ¾±²Ô²¹ a stage for plays, scene, platform, perhaps special use of Latin ±èÄå²µ¾±²Ô²¹ page 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pageant1

C14: from Medieval Latin ±èÄå²µ¾±²Ô²¹ scene of a play, from Latin: page 1
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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.

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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".

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Brooks the opportunity to create a pageant of flamboyant international garb, designed to lay unmistakable claim to new cultural identities.

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His inauguration unfolded like a grotesque pageant, a theater of excess where power and cruelty met on a stage gilded in vulgarity.

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She has also competed in international pageants and won the title of Miss Voluptuous Wales.

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