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Definition of pageant:

  • (noun) an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes
  • (noun) a rich and spectacular ceremony

Sentence Examples:

Then comes the imposing military pageant.

Straight to the fire marched the pageant.

In 1415 fifty-seven pageant plays were produced.

The whole thing is a passing pageant.

This pageant will be an inspiring thing.

The pageant was of no little splendor.

Before his eyes what changing pageants pass!

Pageant or funeral, it is the same thing.

No pageant to welcome, to children no fun?

The book is like a grand historical pageant.

The pageant became more and more a play.

"I'd like to have a Pageant every night!"

A fine fellow at the pageants is Giles!

This wasn't a pageant for critical comment.

Where did she learn to plan pageants?

Such pageants and rejoicing were never known.

Then a ghostly pageant passed the Fort.

The whole show was a mocking pageant.

More often battles and pageants attract them.

The Flower Pageant will be to-morrow evening.

Immortal guest, our games and pageant share!

They do no more than flank the pageant.

Is it a pageant the rich folks play?

Nothing shews off a pageant like fine weather.

After all, the pageant of life has value!

History is a pageant, and not a philosophy.

The phenomenal world is a pageant, a scene.

A slight mist added beauty to the pageant.

It was a daring idea, this patriotic pageant.

"Where is the master of that fair pageant?"

It was a pageant of passion, self-existent, self-destroying.

He had taken no part in the pageant.

One saw the pageants that he wrote about.

Volumes have been written descriptive of the pageant.

The spring in Florence is a wonderful pageant.

And winter comforts coming in like a pageant.

In the fourteenth century religious pageants were added.

Take a good look at this splendid pageant, Ned!

The pageant was splendid and deeply interesting.

Life was like a great pageant, in a palace.

It was a glorious pageant, such as Roma loved.

It is a Pageant of Falstaff's life and death.

What could halt this mighty pageant now?

This will be remembered as quite a gorgeous pageant.

Thomas Wood Stevens in America have been called pageants.

The cloud pageant rolled on above and beyond.

In vain her pageant shall the Summer rear?

To such a pageant I have no desire to belong.

The pageant of the Pyrenees is never done.

It was always a brilliant and picturesque pageant.

He also wrote the music for two pageants.

"They've just about ruined my pageant," she said.

Their yearly pageant continued to our own day.

How many remarkable pageants have here taken place.

How little looks our pageant prince to him!

It was certainly a brilliant and cheerful pageant.

The fourth or trade pageant is worth quoting.

Their reception was in the nature of a pageant.

In an instant the pageant was at an end.

We have lost the art of making a Pageant.

It was a marvelous pageant of fruit in mass.

To me who saw them earned, no vain pageant.

A different sort of ceremony, this: a rare pageant.

What a strange kind of pageant have we seen?

Our ancestors' fanciful costumes were seen in the pageant.

Each of the fifty-four crafts produced a separate pageant.

They figure even in more general and festive pageants.

In the evening a pageant was to take place.

Pageants are hardly to the mind of a soldier.

With the funeral pageant the brilliant career terminated.

Directly they leave the pageant they get lost.

The outburst of pageants was spontaneous and national.

Indeed, much of the Pageant was extremely silly.

We're all tired to death from that pageant.

This pageant made straight for the shoemaker's shop.

The pageant is endless, its story never finished.

It was as good as a stage pageant to them.

Interesting descriptions by him of the royal pageant.

The pageant will be held two nights hence.

And behind his pageants there is always power.

The funeral procession was anything but a pageant.

And the canoes that approached made a strange pageant.

In all Cupid's pageant there is presented no monster.

Let me endeavor to give you an idea of the pageant.

William Winter saw it a pageant of ghastly desolation.

Notable as the wild pageant of a winter day.

A moving, background pageant of visitors paid them court.

How can pie be introduced into my grand pageant?

One other thing: was it his idea, this pageant?

Why was Hinton himself so eager about the pageant?

Perhaps you can plan a pageant for your town.

A pageant now took possession of the upper Mississippi.

"We came to talk about the Pageant," began Guy.

Again the youth ventured to question this awful pageant.

I have seen many a military, many a civic pageant.

Our ambassadors abroad are the mere pageants of mimic sovereignty.

Except in name he was little else than a pageant.

The day was pleasant, and the pageant imposing.

Look at the pageant that is spread before our eyes.

There was a good deal to say about the pageant.