pageantry
noun
spectacular display; pomp.
pageantries
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pluralof pageantry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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An arrival ceremony on the South Lawn ranks among the most regal of pageantries that Washington has to offer, reserved usually for the most important of visitors and even then for special occasions.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2015
He has conceived scintillating decors for Ziegfeld pageantries.
From Time Magazine Archive
But yet her look turned not aside From the black deep where dreams abide, Where worlds and pageantries lay dead Beneath that viewless tide.
From The Common Law by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
As life about him, by degrees Discloses all its pageantries He watches with approval shy At two years old.
From Chimneysmoke by Christopher Morley
Willard Glazier's chapters, in which every battle may be regarded as a separate picture, read like a grand panoramic view of gallant deeds and warlike pageantries.
From Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens
