pageant
IPA: pˈædʒʌnt
noun
- An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume.
- A spectacular ceremony.
- (obsolete) A wheeled platform for the exhibition of plays, etc.
- Ellipsis of beauty pageant. [A competition in which participants compete for a determination that one is the most physically attractive.]
verb
- To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.
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Examples of "pageant" in Sentences
- That's not the name of the pageant.
- Ekta was the winner of the pageant.
- She was the youngest delegate in the pageant.
- The pageant starts with the dress of introduction.
- Cats strut their stuff in a puss pageant in Israel.
- The pageant is televised by the broadcaster TVNorge.
- The pageant was held in the Chinese city of Shanghai.
- With the coming of beauty pageants, beauty was redefined.
- The Ramona Pageant is the official outdoor play of the State of California.
- The Pageant contestants epitomize the roles we are all forced to play as women.
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