pageant

IPA: pˈædʒʌnt

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.]

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: