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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:

"Is a great fresco, a pageant of passions."

We love the man, the paltry pageant you.

The epic defiled before his vision like a pageant.

The somber pageant darkens all the land.

Now it hurried ashore, a weirdly solemn pageant.

I understand now all the piteous humble pageant!

A gay pageant it was and much revelry.

Margery exclaimed, as the pageants were drawn away.

Presenting an American pageant is one thing, but gracious!

Now let a tableau lend variety to our pageant.

We are not concerned here to revive that calamitous pageant.

Wolsey was passionately fond of pomp and pageant.

As a pageant, "The Prophet" has never been surpassed.

These pageants were frequently moveable and drawn upon wheels.

It is the vague and insubstantial pageant of a dream.

Where was its romance, its pageants and revels?

It was like a queen's pageant in a vision of fairyland.

To what end all this shifting pageant of loveliness?

He has attended a pageant or a fiesta or a carnival.

The pageant passed compact, and yet in gorgeous disarray.

Garrick's Pageant of the Coronation concluded the night's diversion.

It's to be an Anglo-American pageant, to symbolize the school.

This quadrangle is a fit place to stage a pageant.

The pageant had really something chivalrous in its arrangement.

Colt to take his leave, being due at a Pageant rehearsal.

A few moments more, and the iridescent pageant vanished.

It was more like a cathedral service than an operatic pageant.

With a lugubrious affectation of grief the funeral pageant passed.

It was a romantic and barbaric pageant of shifting color.

All the fine livery of a pageant brightened these occasions.

And Tally-yang-sang it was, whose woeful figure approached the pageant.

Much as he loved pageants, he loved homelier scenes as well.

Hadn't they noticed I'd just dismantled their sick pageant?

Of all English roads, it has carried the longest pageant.

The grandest of all human pageants was a Roman triumph.

This was an historical pageant, representing the King's immediate progenitors.

In the taste of that day, he invented an allegorical pageant.

A throng of mounted cavaliers in gorgeous apparel closed the pageant.

"Not necessarily to be present at the pageant," said Linker apologetically.

"Would your Excellency inquire further into the mystery of the pageant?"

The splendors of the pageant had far surpassed their expectations.

To take part in an ostentatious pageant, nothing could be better devised.

This pageant appeared to be drawn by a lion and an antelope.

He proudly pictured his forbears taking part in some kingly pageant.

"There's Adrian," cried Inez as the rearguard of the pageant passed.

The pageant was a wonderful success in spite of my misgivings.

They delighted in sumptuous entertainments, and were particularly given to pageants.

Pageants sweep by, and nobles are presiding in halls of state.

The next eleven triplets introduce the presiding genius of the pageant.

She "got up" plays, and bazaars, and pageants, and concerts.

The impersonation of a goddess, with processions, pageants, and the rest...

Underneath the beauty pageant exterior she was all steel and sinew.

"Indeed, the good dame does well to be proud of such a pageant."

The morning light made havoc with the glamour of the pageants.

The pageant of dying summer filled his soul with wrath unutterable.

The earth is the wide and universal theater of man's woeful pageant.

Only these two officers of the Pageant were privileged to remain unmasked.

English court life, its pageants, its courtiers, he knew them well.

Now every one of us has a namesake in the pageant, except Francis.

It was no gorgeous pageant so far as pomp and circumstance were concerned.

"How will this pageant help you any whit the more to study?"

Six months, no more, crammed full of gorgeous pageants and exciting events.

A gay pageant passed one day within sight of the noble yew.

The pageants were similar to the triumphal arches of the present day.

And like the insubstantial pageant faded, it left not a rack behind.

He vanishes from the pageant to win plentiful laurels on other fields.

In many cases the pageant will, of necessity, have to be rehearsed indoors.

No bevy of ladies, no merry parties, no pageants worthy of the name.

Even comedies and pageants lost their old gaiety and became dull and tedious.

Charles I. also introduced a more tasteful style of Court pageants and festivities.

We might make the pageant a means of centralizing and unifying national life.

On February 24 the coronation took place at Westminster with the usual pageants.

The Romans returned in triumphal procession and pageant to their own country.

Here the pageants were not movable ones, but were given at fixed points.

Great preparations are made to make the pageant pompous and attractive, when, alas!

This once familiar pageant is known to our generation only by descriptions and engravings.

In 1840, the eyes of the world were fixed upon this grand funereal pageant.

The pageant of London rolled by her, heaving, bursting with rich life.

The military pageant which continued throughout the ensuing week was most impressive.

I'll make Lilith lisp that you're one of the patrons of Aunt Agatha's pageant.

The monotony of the pageant was broken; something new was announcing itself.

A flaming pageant of color traced and retraced its course across the sky.

The pageant of metropolitan civilization and magnificence never presented itself to provincial eyes.

Now she watched the pageant of the dying day in a rapt delight.

It was a grand pageant, the long column of bayonets and high-waving flags.

Music is, of course, an indispensable assistance for the solemnity of such pageants.

This ruffed grouse, in turn, how he recalls the pageant of the upland!

It degraded the solemnity of the pageant to the level of a military parade.

The route of the pageant could be seen from afar, cleanly outlined by humanity.

In the masque and pageant of the afternoon four thousand school children took part.

The clown calls the piece a "pageant"; it cannot be called "a chronicle history."

Its hospitality was, like the other attractions of the Jane Moseley, a perfidious pageant.

Watch weaving, carving and coconut husking and be sure to see the canoe pageant.

Dissipated into thin air, dissolved like an empty pageant, not leaving a trace behind.

Those pageants of circumstances which kindle the imagination have been remote from their names.

One such splendid pageant as I have attempted to describe instinctively quenches human pride.

In this heartless manner he succeeded in adjourning the pageant for an indefinite period.

Everything about these pageants must have been terrifying especially to sensitive or guilty consciences.

As this absorbing pageant of the mountains disappeared, our thoughts reverted to De Aery.

There was no splendor of pageant in the raid of the guerilla into the Cove.