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noun
1.
an elaborate public spectacle illustrative of the history of a place, institution, or the like, often given in dramatic form or as a procession of colorful floats.
2.
a costumed procession, masque, allegorical tableau, or the like forming part of public or social festivities.
3.
a show or exhibition, especially one consisting of a succession of participants or events: a beauty pageant.
4.
something comparable to a procession in colorful variety, splendor, or grandeur: the pageant of Renaissance history.
5.
EXPANDa pretentious display or show that conceals a lack of real importance or meaning.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English pagyn, pagaunt, pagand < Anglo-Latin pāgina a stage for plays, scene, platform, perhaps special use of Latin pāgina page1
1350–1400; Middle English pagyn, pagaunt, pagand < Anglo-Latin pāgina a stage for plays, scene, platform, perhaps special use of Latin pāgina page1
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pag·eant·eer, noun
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Word Origin & History
pageant
late 14c., "play in a cycle of mystery plays," from M.L. pagina, perhaps from L. pagina "page of a book" (see page (1)) on notion of "manuscript" of a play. But an early sense in M.E. also was "stage or scene of a play" (late 14c.) and Klein says a sense of L. pagina was "moveable
EXPANDscaffold" (probably from the etymological sense of "stake"). With excrescent -t as in ancient (q.v.). Generalized sense of "showy parade, spectacle" is first attested 1805, though this notion is found in pageantry (1650s).
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