pageanteer

English

Etymology

pageant +‎ -eer

Noun

pageanteer (plural pageanteers)

1. One who produces a pageant.
   • 1937, Association of American Railroads. Signal Section, Proceedings - Volume 36, page 271:

     This show is being put on by Edward Hungerford, the master pageanteer, with a cast of some 250 people.

   • 1966, George McCalmon, Christian Hollis Moe, Creating historical drama:

     The pageanteer, then, must be an effective scenewright as well as playwright. Spectacle is another demand often placed upon a pageant-drama.

   • 2010, Morna O'Neill, Michael Hatt, The Edwardian Sense: Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, page 43:

     This account of a fictional "Merchester" pageant by the novelist Arthur Quiller-Couch in his Brother Copas (1911) was based on his own experience as a writer and actor — or pageanteer, in contemporary parlance — involved with the 1908 Winchester National Pageant.

   • 2018, Charles William Wallace, The evolution of English drama up to Shakespeare, page 33:

     In November, 1509, within six months after the renewal of his appointment at the accession of Henry VIII, Newark died, and his place as Master of the Children was filled by William Cornish,” the most eminent composer, poet, and pageanteer that had yet graced the Court.

2. One who performs a role in a pageant.
   • 1922, Arthur Porritt, The Best I Remember, page 90:

     We found that he had no real connexion with any church nor with the L.M.S., but had somehow managed to get enrolled as a pageanteer, with the intention, no doubt, of rifling any pockets that he found convenient.

   • 1940, Berta Ruck, Money Isn't Everything, page 122:

     It was not, by a long way, every pageanteer who could afford to order or hire robes, cloaks, tunics, head-dresses from the professionals. Plenty of the smaller “parts” cut out their own costumes and held sewing-bees, sometimes at one house in the Pageant's neighbourhood, sometimes in another.

   • 2003, Felix Driver, David Gilbert, Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity:

     However, she also resented the fact that the titled women were given the more aristocratic pageant roles, in contradiction of the usual pageant ideal where pageanteers assumed roles that were the reverse of their own position in society.

   • 2010, Morna O'Neill, Michael Hatt, The Edwardian Sense, page 57:

     Some well-to-do pageanteers evidently traveled around the country to appear in one pageant after another.

3. A contestant in a beauty contest.
   • 2002, Keith Lovegrove, Pageant: The Beauty Contest:

     For some women, this is their first pageant experience, while others are 'career' pageanteers, who started as young as four.

   • 2008, Esquire: The Magazine for Men - Volume 150, page 121:

     Already a model and formidable pageanteer —a runner-up in the 2006 Miss Paraguay contest—expect her to segue into a pitchwoman for digital cameras or cereal.

   • 2013, Xhenet Aliu, Domesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories, page 69:

     Nadja had not thought of the word elegant since her mother made her model for no real occasion one sequined monstrosity after another at Denise's Bridal Affair, pretending her daughter was a pageanteer and hadn't maxed out at a B-cup.