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pomp

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noun

stately or splendid display; splendor; magnificence.
ostentatious or vain display, especially of dignity or importance.
pomps, pompous displays, actions, or things:
The official was accompanied by all the pomps of his high position.
Archaic. a stately or splendid procession; pageant.

pomp

/ pɒmp /

Origin of pomp¹

1275–1325; Middle English < Latin pompa display, parade, procession < Greek pompḗ originally, a sending, akin to pémpein to send

Origin of pomp¹

C14: from Old French pompe, from Latin pompa procession, from Greek pompē; related to Greek pompein to send

If a product is beautiful, why do you need all that pomp and circumstance?

Instead, there was a high school band striking up the Elgar march “Pomp and Circumstance.”

A glittering spectacle of British pomp and majesty it may be, but the clothes are rather tight, and the room is somewhat airless.

Compared to where we had just been, what we had so recently done, all the pomp and circumstance seemed ingratiatingly trivial.

We still seem driven by hype, by illusory health scares and benefits, by pomp, by the new and trendy, than by taste.

They buried her body in the Recollect convent, with the greatest pomp possible.

The date was fixed for the interment with military pomp, and immense crowds came out to witness the imposing procession.

The Cardinals started for the north, 'as the manner of the Romans is,' with great pomp and circumstance.

If he has painted vice and shown Satan in all his pomp, it is without the least complacence in the task.

All this pomp and circumstance was in their eyes no other than a distinctive mark of paganism.

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