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.
Examples of "pageant" in Sentences
- Motley entered the Miss Wisconsin pageant on a bet and was crowned in 2004.
- An annual beauty pageant is also held, as well as various health and HIV/AIDS seminars.
- Church leaders have said services and the TV show will continue, though the annual Christmas pageant is in doubt.
- Turning the whole conflict into a pageant is exploitative, in bad taste, and extremely unflattering to the father.
- I believe the anti-gay speech has something to do with her being fired but that doesnt mean that the pageant is at fault.
- Anyone who participates in a pageant is agreeing to be judged (have their value determined!) on appearance, that's a basis of the competition!
- The women she chose to focus on are indeed interesting characters, and the pageant is a strange event in what is, as the father of one of the girls calls it, basically a third world country.
- The journalist, Gemma Soames, seems to be arguing that the recent Miss University London beauty pageant is a microcosmic example of a change in the focus of feminist activism by cis women away from a ‘retro’ (and, by implication, outmoded and irrelevant) feminism: