pageant
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- pageaunt (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
Late 14th c., from Medieval Latin pagina (“play in a cycle of mystery plays”), perhaps from Latin pāgina (“page of a book”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pageant (plural pageants)
- An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume.
- Synonym: spectacle
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 4
- For a few moments the events of the day floated in disastrous pageant through my brain, till sleep bathed it in forgetfulness […]
- A spectacular ceremony.
- Ellipsis of beauty pageant.
- Synonyms: beauty contest, beauty pageant
- (obsolete) A wheeled platform for the exhibition of plays, etc.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
public display
spectacular ceremony
beauty pageant — see beauty pageant
Verb[edit]
pageant (third-person singular simple present pageants, present participle pageanting, simple past and past participle pageanted)
- To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:
- He pageants us.
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