pageantries
- plural of pageantry.
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
The pomps of the religion, the pageantries of the court, and the munificence of the nobility, were never before characterised by so much grandeur and profusion.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various
As life about him, by degrees Discloses all its pageantries He watches with approval shy At two years old.
From Chimneysmoke by Morley, Christopher
Count,240 Will well supply the place of both—I am not A lover of these pageantries.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
