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pageantries

n. (plural of pageantry English)

Usage examples of "pageantries".

Had they followed their hereditary taste, the New England settlers would have illustrated all events of public importance by bonfires, banquets, pageantries, and processions.

It was at her instance, though Henry was scarcely conscious of the prompting, that the pageantries and festivities in which he had once so greatly delighted were discontinued.

The pompous pageantries and shows erstwhile exhibited there were over.