Crossword clues for pageant
pageant
- Servant attending queen, maybe in ceremony
- Public spectacle
- Elaborate display
- Christmas show
- Beauty contest
- Miss America, e.g
- Miss USA contest, e.g
- Beauty show
- Beauty contest, e.g
- The Miss America ___
- Miss Universe competition, for example
- Miss Teen USA contest, e.g
- Miss America event
- Event with a queen
- Event for a "Toddlers & Tiaras" contestant
- Crowning event?
- Coronation pomp
- Beauty display
- Atlantic City event
- Show
- Gala
- Where to see a crown
- Where swimsuits may be worn
- Something that's "Miss" titled?
- An elaborate representation of scenes from history etc
- Usually involves a parade with rich costumes
- A rich and spectacular ceremony
- Miss America, e.g.
- Exhibition
- Theatrical spectacle
- Elaborate spectacle
- Mardi Gras event
- Costumed procession
- Colourful parade
- Elaborate parade
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pageant \Pag"eant\, a.
Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular. ``Pageant pomp.''
--Dryden.
Pageant \Pag"eant\, v. t.
To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic. [R.] ``He
pageants us.''
--Shak.
Pageant \Pag"eant\ (p[a^]j"ent or p[=a]"jent; 277), n. [OE. pagent, pagen, originally, a movable scaffold or stage, hence, what was exhibited on it, fr. LL. pagina, akin to pangere to fasten; cf. L. pagina page, leaf, slab, compaginare to join together, compages a joining together, structure. See Pact, Page of a book.]
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A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle. ``A pageant truly played.''
--Shak.To see sad pageants of men's miseries.
--Spenser. -
An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display.
The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day!
--Pope.We love the man, the paltry pageant you.
--Cowper.
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 scene of a play" (late 14c.) and Klein says a sense of Latin pagina was "movable scaffold" (probably from the etymological sense of "stake"). With excrescent -t as in ancient (adj.). Generalized sense of "showy parade, spectacle" is first attested 1805, though this notion is found in pageantry (1650s).
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.
WordNet
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.
A pageant can refer to:
- Procession or ceremony in elaborate costume
- Beauty pageant
- Religion:
- Medieval pageant, a narrative medieval procession connected with a festival
- Nativity play, or "Christmas pageant"
- Pageant (film), a documentary film that explores the dramas and realities of the Miss Gay America Contest
- Pageant (magazine), a 20th-century monthly periodical
- Pageant (musical), a 1991 Off Broadway musical by Robert Longbottom
- Pageant, a 1933 novel by Australian author G. B. Lancaster
- Pageant (song)'', a single by Moi dix Mois
- Pageant, a PuTTY SSH authentication agent
Pageant is a 2008 documentary film directed and produced together by Ron Davis and Stewart Halpern. The film explored the behind-the-scenes dramas and realities of the 34th Miss Gay America Contest. The film's central theme was the universal desire to be beautiful, noticed and chosen. The film garnered 10 film festival awards before airing on the Sundance Channel in 2010.
Pageant (1933) is a novel by Australian author G. B. Lancaster (pen-name for Edith Joan Lyttleton). It won the ALS Gold Medal for Best Novel in 1933.
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.