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
As life about him, by degrees Discloses all its pageantries He watches with approval shy At two years old.
From Chimneysmoke by Christopher Morley
I. From Delphi to Camden—little Hoosier towns,— But here were classic meadows, blooming dales and downs And here were grassy pastures, dewy as the leas Trampled over by the trains of royal pageantries.
From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Bill Nye
—Ah strange drama of Fate! what motley pageantries rise On the stage of this make-shift world! what irony silenced in sighs!
From The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History by Henry Morley
