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pageant
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Word definitions for pageant in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume. 2 A spectacular ceremony. 3 A beauty pageant. vb. To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pageant was a 20th-century monthly magazine published in the United States from November 1944 until February 1977. Printed in a digest size format, it became Coronet magazine's leading competition, although it aimed for comparison to Reader's Digest .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "play in a cycle of mystery plays," from Medieval Latin pagina , of uncertain origin, perhaps from Latin pagina "page of a book" (see page (n.1)) on notion of "manuscript" of a play.\n \nBut an early sense in Middle English also was "stage or ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pageant \Pag"eant\, a. Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular. ``Pageant pomp.'' --Dryden.
Usage examples of pageant.
Miss Marina Days, Miss Alameda, and winner of the Junior Miss pageant.
Not expecting to see me, she asked me why I had not gone to the pageant of the Bucentaur, which, the weather being favourable, would set out on this day.
The side Kenkenes approached sloped sharply from the dromos toward the river, and the rearmost spectators had small opportunity to behold the pageant.
Before he could extricate himself, the runners preceding the pageant returning the great god to his shrine, beat the multitude back from the dromos and once again Kenkenes was imprisoned by the hosts.
Anglicanism resorts to a grand pageant of uniformity, beneath which, however, lurk Anglo-Catholicism, Evangelicism, and Liberalism, by no means uniform in faith.
I spent the day working on the plans for those events for which I was responsible at the Feoffees Pageant which was to be held at Manston Hall at the end of May.
Savage about the Feoffees Pageant had been undertaken by notes and memoranda.
It was the Saturday of the Feoffees Pageant and the weather was perfect, the sky a cloudless blue and it was warm for the end of May.
Gore thanking you and your colleagues for all the help with the Feoffees Pageant.
In the centre of the main hall, Charity Exmouth stood wrapt in admiration before the pageant tower, with her hobbledehoy son prancing sycophantically at her side.
In thirty-two years he had seen the full pageant of human misery walk through his door - all ages, sexes, colours, shapes, sizes, and with every kink in the book: junkies, pushers, pros-ties, pimps, thieves, kooks, killers, you name it.
At the head of the pageant were the boats of the nomarch and the courtiers to Meneptah who remained in Memphis.
Viewing of Antique Tabards, an annual pageant of Phanes wearing sumptuous garments took place in the Great Rotunda to the north of the central plaza.
The Pageant Unfortunately, things had not turned out well for Betty Raye either.
Main sought his little farm, satisfied with the pageants and regatta of the previous day.