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pageantry

[ paj-uhn-tree ]

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noun

, plural pag·eant·ries.

spectacular display; pomp:
the pageantry of a coronation.
Synonyms: show, ceremony, spectacle
mere show; empty display.
pageants collectively; pageants and the performance of pageants.

pageantry

/ ˈpædʒəntrɪ /

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First recorded in 1600–10; pageant + -ry

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Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.

Passersby passed by, displaying the full pageantry of West Village life.

A papal visit, by definition, is freighted with emotion and pageantry.

Cannons were fired, brass bands played, and American-inspired pomp and pageantry abounded.

But what gets lost among all the bitter pageantry is the little matter of delegates.

The poor like the Queen personally, and like to gaze at royal pageantry; but they are not fanatically loyal.

The ceremony was shorn of the grotesque pageantry of chivalric times, and was confined to the interior of the abbey.

Its grand opening was a riot of splendid colorings and beauty, never surpassed in all pageantry.

Man seeks to adorn death; the pageantry of the funeral, the attractiveness of the cemetery, all show this.

It is a religion of love, practical, undemonstrative, knowing nothing of pageantry and spectacle.

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