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单词 pageant
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pageantn.adj.

Brit. /ˈpadʒ(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈpædʒ(ə)nt/
Forms:

α. Middle English–1500s pagyn, 1500s padgean, 1500s padgin, 1500s padgion, 1500s pagen, 1500s pageon, 1500s paidgion, 1500s–1600s pagin; Scottish pre-1700 bagan, pre-1700 padȝane, pre-1700 padȝeane, pre-1700 padȝen, pre-1700 padȝeoun, pre-1700 padgin, pre-1700 padyan, pre-1700 pagane, pre-1700 pagen, pre-1700 paggan, pre-1700 pagin, pre-1700 paidgin, pre-1700 pegane, pre-1700 peggane, pre-1700 piadȝan.

β. Middle English pachand (in a late copy), Middle English pachent, Middle English padghand, Middle English pagand, Middle English pagende, Middle English pageunt, Middle English paggent, Middle English pagiont, Middle English pagond (in a late copy), Middle English paiande, Middle English paient, Middle English paiont, Middle English pajant, Middle English pajaunt, Middle English panget (probably transmission error), Middle English 1600s padgeant, Middle English–1500s pagaunt, Middle English–1500s pageaunt, Middle English–1500s pageaunte, Middle English–1500s pagiaunt, Middle English–1500s pagyant, Middle English–1500s paiaunt, Middle English–1600s pagent, Middle English– pageant, 1500s pagaint, 1500s pagant, 1500s pagantt, 1500s pagentt, 1500s pageyond, 1500s pagient, 1500s pagynt, 1500s paiant, 1500s paiauntt, 1500s payante, 1500s paygent, 1500s–1600s pageante, 1500s–1600s pagiant, 1600s pagiante, 1600s pagiente, 1600s paygend; Scottish pre-1700 badgeand, pre-1700 padȝand, pre-1700 padgeant, pre-1700 1700s– pageant; N.E.D. (1904) also records forms Middle English pacent, Middle English padgiant, Middle English padzhand, Middle English pagend.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French pagin, pagant; Latin pagina, pagens, pagenda.
Etymology: Partly < Anglo-Norman pagin, pagine, pagyn, also pagant, pagent pageant, stage (late 14th cent. in both senses), and partly < post-classical Latin pagina play in a cycle of mystery plays, pageant (from 1376 in British sources), stage (1387, 1388, 1432 in British sources), tableau (1432), also pagens play in a cycle of mystery plays, pageant (1390, 1414, 1538 in British sources as plural pagentes ), pagenda stage (1411 in a British source), of uncertain origin: see note. The final dental in the β. forms, as also in Anglo-Norman and (probably after the vernacular forms) post-classical Latin, is probably excrescent or analogical: compare e.g. ancient adj., -ant suffix3.The forms Anglo-Norman pagine , post-classical Latin pagina suggest that the word may ultimately be identical with classical Latin pāgina page n.2 (compare Anglo-Norman pagine , pagin : see pagine n., and also Middle English forms with final -t , -te s.v.), but the semantic development is hard to explain. Perhaps, if the sense ‘scene displayed on a stage’ were the original sense, it might be developed from ‘page’ or ‘leaf’ of a manuscript play, but if so there is no evidence to support this. Alternatively, if ‘stage’ is in fact the original sense, it might be possible to posit a development from ‘tablet or slab (for inscription)’ perhaps through ‘board’ to ‘stage’, but supporting evidence for this is also lacking. Alternatively, post-classical Latin pagina could be interpreted as a more or less independent formation from the stem pag- of classical Latin pangere to fix, also seen in classical Latin compāges , compāgo , compāgina ‘fixing together’, ‘joining’, compāginata ‘fixed together’ (whence perhaps ‘framework’). For the sense, perhaps compare classical Latin pēgma < ancient Greek πῆγμα ‘a framework fastened or joined together’, spec. ‘a movable stage or scaffold used in theatres’ (see pegma n.); Du Cange has examples of post-classical Latin pegma in the sense ‘a wooden machine on which statues are placed’ and the word is attested denoting a stage or pageant in a British source in the mid 16th cent., and compare Middle French pegme framework on which images or statues are displayed on festivals (c1550), French †pegmate ‘a stage or frame whereon Pageants be set or carried’ (1611 in Cotgrave). However, although classical Latin pangere and pagīna are ultimately from the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek πῆγμα, it would be surprising to find post-classical Latin pagina as a calque on ancient Greek πῆγμα, and it is hard to see by what other mechanism the one word could have influenced the other. It had been supposed that an earlier post-classical Latin example of pagina, in a sense like ‘boarding’, existed in the final paragraph of the 12th- or 13th-cent. treatise of Alexander Neckam De Utensilibus, printed (very inaccurately) in T. Wright's Vol. of Vocabularies 1857, pp. 96–119, from MS Cott. Titus D. 20, lf. 48 b, where Wright has ‘ut lingnum hujus pagine forti aderat tegminibus’; but the actual reading of the manuscript is ‘ut lingnum hic compagine forti ad[h]ereat tegminibus’; so that the supposed pagina ‘boarding’ has no existence. N.E.D. (1904) also gives the pronunciation (pēi·dʒĕnt) /ˈpeɪdʒənt/.
A. n.
1.
a. A play in a medieval mystery cycle; an act or scene in such a play. Later also: a play on a religious theme, spec. one modelled on the medieval mystery plays.Recorded earliest in compounds.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > scene > scene or act of mystery play
pageant1403
station?c1500
1403 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/281/18) m. 2 Deux autres cotages & vn Pagenthous..queux les Mestres de Whittawerscraft occupient.
1415 in L. T. Smith York Plays (1885) p. xxxiv (MED) We comand..that euery player..be redy in his pagiaunt at convenyant tyme..and then all oyer pageantz fast followyng ilk one after oyer.
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 1 (MED) In þe ffyrst pagent we þenke to play how god dede make..hevyn so clere.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 152 Than cryd Mahoun for a heleand padȝane.
a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 115 The craft of Smythes..were discharged of the Cotelers pachand be a lete.
a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 477 As they haue multiplyed the number of their Stages, so thus they multiply their pagins and parts.
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 30 His former transition was in the faire about the Jugglers, now he is at the Pageants among the Whifflers.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. ii. 137 The prologue..contains the argument of the several pageants, or acts, that constitute the piece.
1893 K. L. Bates Eng. Relig. Drama 117 This steepled town [sc. Coventry] was famous for its Corpus Christi pageants.
1915 C. P. Gilman Herland in Forerunner Oct. 267/2 They had no ritual, no little set of performances called ‘divine service’, save those glorious pageants I have spoken of, and those were as much educational as religioun [sic], and as much social as either.
1994 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 23 Dec. a15/3 Millions of Americans gather to watch Christmas pageants.
b. figurative. A part played by someone in a situation; the role which a person takes in life, in society, etc. Esp. in to play one's pageant: to act one's part. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > behave, conduct, or bear oneself [verb (intransitive)] > behave or make as though
to find one's countenanceOE
to make (a) countenancec1380
to play one's pageanta1425
to play (also act) a (also one's) part1540
the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > assumption of behaviour or attitudes > part played or assumed by a person
personc1230
pageanta1425
partc1450
cue1581
role1606
figurea1616
mantle1658
assumption1871
a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 129 (MED) Þes pagyn playen þei þat hiden þe treuþe of Goddis lawe.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 759 Yondyr rydyth a knyght that playith his pageauntes.
a1545 Deth Edwarde IV in J. Skelton Certayne Bks. (c1563) 85 I haue pleyd my pageyond, now am I past.
1591–2 Rob Stene's Dream (1836) 17 Ȝe his jugling can not see..Quhill he haif plaid his padȝeane weill.
1848 D. Greenwell Dream of Poet's Youth in Poems 2 Sore task, again to play the pageant through, And brace these wearied sinews to the fray.
1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic lxiii We must play the pageant out.
c. A performance intended to deceive; a trick. Obsolete.to play (a person) a pageant: to trick, deceive, or take advantage of (a person).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > a trick, prank, hoax
pratOE
mowa1393
pageant?c1430
jimp?1572
prank1576
jest1578
jig1592
frump1593
trick1605
bilk1664
fun1699
plisky1706
humbug1750
hum1751
practical joke1751
marlock1763
quiz1795
practical joke1804
skite1804
hoax1808
skit1815
wrinkle1817
rusty1835
funny business1838
string1851
stringer1851
cod1862
mank1865
spoof1889
leg-pull1893
rannygazoo1896
shenanigan1926
gotcha1967
to throw a fastball1968
wind-up1984
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > play tricks [phrase]
to do or make a blenk or blencha1250
to play (a person) a pageant1530
to give one the geck1568
to play a paw1568
to draw through the water with a cat1631
come1714
to run one's rig upon1793
to come (the) paddy over1809
to work a traverse1840
to go on, have, take a lark1884
to pull a fast one1912
to take for a ride1925
to pull a person's pissera1935
to pull a person's chain1975
?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 99 (MED) Þei pleien þe pagyn of scottis; for as scottis token þe skochen of armes of seynt george & here-bi traieden englischemen, so þes anticristis prelatis taken name & staat of cristis apostlis.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 658/2 He had thought to playe me a pagent, il me cuyda donner le bout.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 4 This spightful pageaunt of his owne syb Iuno remembring [L. Nec latuere doli fratrem Iunonis et iræ].
1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders xv. 88 This pageant was plaid by a Hollander.
d. A pictorial illustration, esp. in a manuscript or on a tapestry; (also) a tapestry or hanging covered with narrative or decorative scenes. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > paintings of other scenes
pageant1451
fire piece1592
rhopographer1730
candlelight1763
hunting-piece1765
interior1829
fête galante1851
1451–2 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 315 For duble handyng of the parloure wt lenyn clothe, Rede Wosterde, iij pagentes wt oure Armes.
1557 More's Wks. ij b Mayster Thomas More in his youth deuysed in hys fathers house in London, a goodly hangyng of fyne paynted clothe, with nyne pageauntes, and verses ouer euery of those pageauntes: which verses..declared what the ymages in those pageauntes represented.
2.
a. A stage or platform on which scenes were acted or tableaux represented; (formerly) esp. a movable structure consisting of stage and stage machinery, used in the open-air performance of a mystery play. Now historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > movable or temporary
scaffoldc1405
pageant1450
pegma1604
pageant car1803
street theatre1882
1450 Coventry Smith's Acct. in T. Sharp Diss. Pageants Coventry (1825) 20 Spend to bryng the pagent into gosford-stret vd.
1453 in T. Sharp Diss. Pageants Coventry (1825) 15 (MED) Þe kepers of the craft shall let bring forth þe pajant & find clothys that gon abowte þe pajant.
1500 in L. T. Smith York Plays Introd. p. xxxv The cartwryghts [are] to make iiij new wheles to the pagiaunt.
a1595 Archd. Rogers in Diss. Pageants Coventry (1825) 17 The maner of these playes weare, euery company had his pagaint, or parte, which pageants weare a high scafolde with 2 rowmes, a higher and a lower, vpon 4 wheeles.
1650 tr. J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Reserata §622 Scaffolds (pageants) are frames of timber rasht up in haste.
1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks (ed. 3) 344 Judith was one of the most beautiful young Women of Italy, and..round about her (upon the same Frame or Pageant) they had placed..Musicians.
1699 J. Wright Hist. Histrionica 20 Pageants (that is Stages Erected in the open Street) were part of the Entertainment.
1825 T. Sharp Diss. Pageants Coventry 20 It is evident that the ‘scaffolds’ were placed upon wheels, and moved with the Pageant, to which it probably was attached.
1927–9 H. Wheeler Waverley Children's Dict. V. 3089/1 In the Middle Ages a pageant was the rough stage mounted on a cart on which the Mysteries and Miracles were played. To-day we have similar exhibitions in the tableaux arranged for the Lord Mayor's Show, and it is easy to see how the word transferred from the moving stage to the whole procession.
1974 S. J. Kahrl Trad. Medieval Eng. Drama ii. 36 What distinguishes the pageants referred to in this procession from the stages otherwise described is that the structures for the Jesse tree, for St John and St Edward, the four Cardinal Virtues, and the censing angels..are all built around permanent architectural features.
b. A piece of stage machinery. Obsolete.In quot. 1519: any ingenious mechanical device.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > [noun]
trama1400
ginc1400
pageant1519
engine1581
machination1605
machina1612
machine1659
mechanism1665
contrivance1667
gimcrack1772
plant1925
power1942
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > machinery for effects
pageant1519
machine1609
machinery1687
ficelle1890
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxviii. f. 238 Of all the crafty and subtyle paiantis and pecis of warke made by mannys wyt, to go or moue by them selfe: the clocke is one of the beste.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Pegma A frame or pageant, to rise, mooue, or goe it selfe with vices.
1713 J. Addison Guardian No. 115 The Poets contrived the following Pageant or Machine for his Entertainment. They made a huge floating Mountain, that was split at the top in Imitation of Parnassus.
1861 T. Wright Ess. Archæol. II. xxi. 173 Pageant—a word..subsequently in general use to denote stage machinery of all kinds.
3.
a. A tableau, representation, allegorical device, etc., either erected on a fixed stage or on a wagon or float as a public exhibition; a show or play, usually wordless, exhibited as part of a festival or public celebration. Now rare.dumb pageant n. Obsolete = dumb show n. 1.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > tableau > [noun]
pageantc1450
picture1588
spectacle1752
tableau vivant1821
tableau1828
living picture1851
set piece1859
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > [noun] > a mime
dumb show1561
pantomime1630
dumb pageant1642
c1450 J. Capgrave Solace of Pilgrims (Bodl. 423) (1911) 45 Octauian..was receyued with uii sundry worchippis perauentur of euery sciens of þe uii liberal was mad sum special pagent in comendacioun of þe man.
1511 Pylgrymage Richarde Guylforde (Pynson) f. vv Bytwene euery of the Pagentis went lytell Children..gloryously and rychely dressyd.
1533 Noble Coronacyon Quene Anne sig. A.iiii A sumptuous and costly pagent in maner of a castell wherin was fassyoned an heuenly roufe and vnder it vpon a grene was a roote or a stocke, wherout spronge a multytude of whyte roses & reed [etc.].
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccxxx At Millan..were set vp..triumphant arkes, pageons, and images, with honorable posies written.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 155 The great Globe it selfe, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolue, And like this insubstantiall Pageant faded Leaue not a racke behinde. View more context for this quotation
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 55 To stand as a dumb pageant, without salutation.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Pageant, a triumphal Chariot or Arch, or other pompous Device usually carry'd about in Publick Shews.
a1745 in Swift's Lett. (1768) IV. 27 You would have put me to an additional expence, by having a raree-shew (or pageant) as of old, on the lord-mayor's day. Mr. Pope and I were thinking to have a large machine carried through the city, with a printing-press, author, publishers, hawkers, devils, &c. and a satirical poem printed and thrown from the press to the mob.
1793 W. Wordsworth Evening Walk 360 No wrack of all the pageant scene remains.
1859 D. Masson Life Milton I. 542 An acted pageant, with speeches, etc. by persons allegorically dressed.
1899 A. W. Ward Hist. Eng. Dramatic Lit. (ed. 2) I. 145 Those pageants, in the generally accepted later and narrower use of the term, which consisted of moving shows devoid of either action or dialogue, or at least only employing the aid of these incidentally, by way of supplementing and explaining the living figures or groups of figures brought before the eyes of the spectators.
1967 Shakespeare Q. 18 187 To begin with, the dumb show is simply an allegorical pageant, presented between acts to underscore basic themes and also to introduce variety into the static, declamatory style of the early tragedies.
b. A brilliant or stately spectacle arranged for effect; esp. a procession or parade with elaborate spectacular display; a showy parade.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > [noun] > an instance, act, or expression of > specious
pageant1805
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [noun] > parade or procession > pageant
pageant1805
1805 R. Southey Madoc i. xv. 151 Embroidered surcoats, and emblazoned shields,..Made a rare pageant, as with sound of trump, Tambour and cittern, proudly they went on.
1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 299 Few pageants can be more stately and frigid than an English funeral in town.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. vii. 6 The consecration of a King was then not a mere pageant.
1927 Air Dec. 55/2 The first Birmingham Air Pageant.
1976 Evening Post (Nottingham) 15 Dec. 1 He had not received a reply from the County Council to an offer of assistance in organising a water pageant on the day of the Queen's visit.
1990 Village Voice (N.Y.) 16 Oct. 35/2 Autonomy and dependence, piety and heresy, butch and femme: all are represented in Madonna's erotic pageant.
c. figurative. An open or complete display of something; (an overview of) the gradual development or passage of historical events, imagined as a procession passing before one's eyes. life's rich pageant: all the variety of human experience.
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1835 J. H. Newman in Lyra Apost. xxix, in Brit. Mag. Oct. 414 The pageant of a kingdom vast, And things unutterable, past Before the Prophet's eye.
1895 I. Zangwill Master ii. i. 126 To translate into colour and line all this huge pageant of life.
1937 Life 16 Aug. 51 (advt.) Time is a front row seat to the tremendous, marching pageant of the news.
1975 K. Williams Diary 26 Feb. (1993) 489 It's all part of life's rich pageant.
1992 Matrix Fall 50/1 The same ‘value’ or validity as the subtle, wise and empathic recorder of the human pageant.
d. A commemorative play depicting scenes from history (esp. local history), usually performed outdoors in the form of a procession in elaborate, colourful costumes.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [noun] > parade or procession > pageant > historical
pageant1883
history pageant1909
1883 D. Cook On Stage I. x. 219 In the pantomime season, or whenever any great pageant or spectacle is to be produced, these plots are of prodigious extent.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 1 Oct. 2/3 On the sixth of these [days]..there will be presented a historical pageant.
1970 P. Burton & J. Lane New Direct. iii. 78 A great many pageants have been so gruesome—Merrie Englande with rain—the form has earned itself a bad reputation.
1993 This Mag. Aug. 7/3 The Ontario Rural Learning Association (ORLA) has spent nearly three decades fostering citizen participation in community life through..historical pageants.
e. Originally and chiefly U.S. A beauty contest. Cf. beauty pageant n. at beauty n. Compounds 2.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beauty contest
beauty show1856
beauty contest1880
beauty parade1887
beauty pageant1911
pageant1911
1911 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 9 Apr. (Special Cable News section) a5/2 (heading) Pick blondes for beauty pageant.
1929 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal (Electronic ed.) 16 Aug. 5/5 The district winner chosen at Buckeye Lake next Thursday..is to be entered directly in the ‘Miss America’ pageant at Baltimore, Md. in September.
1937 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune 11 Sept. 1/4 (caption) ‘Miss North Dakota’..was missing from the line of beauties at the annual Atlantic City ‘Miss America’ pageant.
1953 N.Y. Times 14 June xx. 15/4 Among the more colorful events are Atlantic City's internationally famous Miss America pageant and Asbury Park's Mrs. America contest.
1966 Public Opinion Q. 30 39 [The] next nationally televised beauty contest—the Miss America Pageant.
1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 1583 In 1959 she reached the pinnacle of the beauty contest world, winning the Miss America Pageant.
1997 Independent 13 Jan. ii. 6/1 The former Little Miss Colorado's wardrobe for 1997 was to have included half a dozen outfits for the different categories of ‘pageants’—the term that organisers prefer to ‘beauty contests’—in which she would compete.
4. figurative. Something empty or insubstantial; a delusion; a specious display or tribute.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun] > something showy
alchemy1547
bubble1598
Sodom apple1605
pageant1608
tinsel1660
pageant idol1696
pageant thing1696
Sodom fruit1737
1608 G. Chapman Conspiracie Duke of Byron v. sig. Hv Without which loue, and trust; honor is shame; A very Pageant, and a propertie.
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. ix. 37 Think ye, the Pageants of your hopes are able To stand secure on earth, when earth it selfe's unstable?
1733 M. Masters Poems Several Occasions 91 Soon flit his Visionary Joys away, Himself the empty Pageant of Day.
1778 A. R. Miller On Novelty 15 Power—is no empty Pageant, when Exerted for the Good of Men.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1750 I. 124 [Johnson:] Many who would, perhaps, have contributed to starve him when alive, have heaped expensive pageants upon his grave.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. ii. 354 The sovereign, divested of all but the name of king, sinks into an empty pageant.
1876 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 5) ii. ii. 408 That unsubstantial pageant of the imagination to which the solidity of science is opposed.
1929 A. S. Eddington Nature of Physical World ix. 195 The Copenhagen school..sees in these phenomena the insubstantial pageant of space, time and matter crumbling into grains of action.
1990 M. Lipman Thank you for having Me (BNC) 87 The night before our departure I watched this pageant of mock humility rise in a crescendo of thanks, tips, tears and promises of some time next year.
B. adj.
Characteristic of a pageant; vain, ostentatious; mock, illusory, without real significance. Now archaic and rare.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adjective] > merely ostentatious
meretricious1633
pageant1634
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [adjective] > theatrical in nature
histrionicalc1553
histrionic1627
pageant1634
theatrical1649
semblant1726
theatric1816
play-acting1875
1634 J. Ford Chron. Hist. Perkin Warbeck i. i Still to be frightened with false apparitions Of pageant Majestie, and new-coynd greatnesse.
1685 J. Tutchin Misc. in Poems Several Occasions 41 Pageant Pomp does still attend the Great.
1701 London Gaz. No. 3758/3 We will..Assist Your Majesty against the French King, his Pageant Prince of Wales, and all others.
1736 Ld. Hervey Mem. Reign Geo. II (1848) I. 73 France and England the pageant mediators in a quarrel..which was made up without their privity.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 91 The pageant pomp of earthly man.
1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 55 Campeggio was made to feel that he was a mere pageant-legate.
a1924 M. Ghose Immortal Eve in Coll. Poems (1970) 278 Ah! not the Roman's pageant-pomp Of conquest to recall, World trampling pride, those lovely eyes Are they imperial.

Compounds

C1.
a.
pageant drama n.
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1934 ELH 1 174 In the realm of fantasy, Tom Taylor used pageant drama for developing social theses.
2001 Daily Oklahoman (Nexis) 3 June 1 Entertainment includes the outdoor pageant drama at ‘The Shepherd of the Hills’.
pageant play n.
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1866 D. M. M. Craik Life for Life 113 There was a good deal of show, certainly, it being a pageant play, but you felt show was natural; that just in such a way the bells must have rung, and the people shouted, for the living Bolingbroke.
1895 W. Archer in World 16 Jan. 24/1 In the historic or legendary pageant-play he seems to have found the formula best suited to the present stage of his career.
1990 R. Crawford Savage & City (BNC) 206 Eliot made clear that his Pageant Play made no pretence of being a contribution to the dramatic literature of England.
pageant plot n.
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1608 T. Middleton Your Fiue Gallants sig. C2v Some pageant plot, or some deuice for the Tilt-yeard.
1987 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 73 970 Pageant plots depicted expansion in the scale of social life from primarily local to regional and national relations as a nearly organic process.
pageant tableau n.
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1904 N.E.D. at Pageant sb. Comb., as pageant-master,.. [pageant] -tableau.
1986 Financial Times (Nexis) 10 May i. p. xv Fine playing breathes life into what is more a statement, a series of pageant tableaux, than a play.
1999 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 18 May 10 The production [sc. The Masque of the Months]—depicted in pageant tableaux, music and dance—the procession of the seasons through the year.
b.
pageant-loving adj.
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1831 in F. Madden Privy Purse Expenses Princess Mary p. xxvii This Christmas was passed in a manner right joyous by the young Princess in her household, in imitation of the King's pageant-loving court.
1899 Academy 12 Aug. 157/1 He provided ‘Trionfi’ for the delight of a pageant-loving folk.
2001 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 9 May a1 5-foot-11 Eva Ekvall of Caracas, hair tied in a bun and wearing the sash of her pageant-loving homeland.
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pageant car n. now historical = pageant cart n.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > movable or temporary
scaffoldc1405
pageant1450
pegma1604
pageant car1803
street theatre1882
1803 A. Candler Julia's Bridal Day in Poet. Attempts 28 What fav'rite has the goddess found To share her pageant car, That airy regions echo round And answer from afar?
1918 Mod. Lang. Notes 33 10 The fact that in these early pageantic Lord Mayor's shows, there was usually but one pageant, may have influenced the change in the meaning of this word from ‘pageant-car’—or what today we should call ‘float’—to a ‘brilliant spectacle,’ whether or not there was a pageant in it.
1997 S. Anglo Spectacle, Pageantry, & Early Tudor Policy iii. 100 The last day of the tournament..was also characterized by splendid entries, including the challengers riding within a pageant car of cloth of gold drawn by two lions, a white hart, and an ibex—each consisting of two men, their legs, suitably disguised, ‘aloonly apperyng’.
pageant cart n. historical a cart, usually owned and operated by a trade guild, on which medieval mystery plays were performed in the open air.
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1962 H. Hunt Introd. Hist. & Pract. of Stage v. 51 Each play was..presented consecutively in the pageant cart, or on an open wagon which was drawn up in front of it and acted as a fore-stage to it.
1992 P. Harding Nightingale Gallery (BNC) 180 He spent a great deal of time in the yard below with the carpenters and masons who were making the pageant cart for the coronation procession.
pageant-house n. now historical a building containing the stage and properties used for pageants.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > store for
pageant-house1403
1403Pagenthous [see sense A. 1a].
1531 Order of Leet in T. Sharp Cov. Myst. (1825) 43 A pagiaunt, with the pagiaunt house & playing geire.
1893 K. Lee Bates Eng. Relig. Drama ii. 43 The difference between France and England in the arrangement of the pageant-house, the English scaffold presenting but one open stage..and the French scaffold exposing three stages..was instrumental in differentiating the rôle of devils in the two countries.
1975 Speculum 50 67 There is no mention of..rents for pageant houses anywhere in the accounts of the Corpus Christi Guild or in the city records concerned with the renting of pageant houses.
pageant idol n. Obsolete rare a false idol.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol
godeOE
anlikenessOE
stockc1000
mammetc1225
Mahometc1275
Mahoundc1275
idola1325
simulacre1382
marmoseta1398
mammetrya1400
puppet1534
poppet?1548
block1570
Dagona1572
pagoda1582
pagody1588
Mokisso1634
poppet deitya1641
pageant idol1696
pageant thing1696
afgod1769
cult figure1895
the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [noun] > unsubstantiality or lack of substance > something lacking substance > a thing that is merely a vain show
phantom1637
pageant idol1696
pageant thing1696
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun] > something showy
alchemy1547
bubble1598
Sodom apple1605
pageant1608
tinsel1660
pageant idol1696
pageant thing1696
Sodom fruit1737
1696 N. Tate & N. Brady New Version Psalms of David xcvii. 7 All who of Pageant-Idols boast.
1763 J. H. Ickworth in Coll. of Poems III. 193 Do they, like us, a pageant idol raise, Swoln with false pride, and flatter'd by false praise?
pageant-master n. a person supervising the production of a pageant.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > tableau > [noun] > person in charge of
pageant-master1409
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [noun] > parade or procession > pageant > participant
pageant-master1409
pageanteer1910
1409 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1915) II. 176 The Padghand maistres..sall warn all the crafte, als ofte tymes als thai sall be charged be the sayd sercheours.
1893 K. Lee Bates Eng. Relig. Drama iii. 116 Those who believe the Chester cycle to have been Englished from a French original consider such passages checked off in the outset by the English pageant master, as superfluous, and so left untranslated.
1987 Daily Tel. 18 July (Weekend section) p. x/4 That was the hey-day of 20th Century pageantry, when other showman pageant-masters with wonderful names like Louis Napoleon Parker made the grand spectacles of Edwardian summers.
pageant money n. now historical money contributed for the production of a medieval mystery play.
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society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > contributions for specific purposes
sowl-silver?1292
pageant-silvera1430
pageant money1525
pageant-pence1551
soul pencea1556
letter money1703
1525 in T. Sharp Weaver's Pageant 20 Rec. of the masters for the pagynt~money xvjs. iiijd.
1569 York House Bks. 24 f. 133v, in H. C. S. J. Gardiner Mysteries' End (1946) iii. 41 It is nowe therefore aggreed that half of that pageant money that is gathered by the Innholders, 64 shall be payd to the sayd waxchandelars and tother half to the Chamber.
1987 G. McCaughrean Little Lower than Angels x. 124 They had all been working at stone-gathering, keeping their pageant money out of sight for fear the constables mark them as robbers or miracle-workers.
pageant-pence n. now historical = pageant money n.
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society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > contributions for specific purposes
sowl-silver?1292
pageant-silvera1430
pageant money1525
pageant-pence1551
soul pencea1556
letter money1703
1551–2 in T. Sharp Diss. Cov. Myst. 22 Reseyved of the craft for pagent pencys iiis. 4d.
1911 C. F. Tucker Brooke Tudor Drama i. 11 In the palmy days of the mystery play—through the fifteenth century and the first half of the sixteenth—every guild was required to support a pageant..; and every craftsman was taxed annually for ‘pageant pence.’
1962 P. M. Kendall Yorkist Age i. i. 66 Dues called ‘pageant-pence’ or ‘pageant-silver’ were collected from each gild member.
pageant poet n. (also with capital initials) British (now historical) a poet appointed to write pageants, esp. for the Lord Mayor of London; cf. City Poet n. at city n. Compounds 2.In quot. 1609, the character ‘Antonio Balladino’ was apparently used by Jonson to ridicule the poet Anthony Munday (cf. quot. 1913).
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1608 J. Day Law-trickes sig. B And euer since [he] liues Zany to the world, Turnes Pageant-Poet, toyler to the presse, Makes himselfe cheape.
1609 B. Jonson Case is Alterd i. sig. A2v Balladino? you are not Pageant Poet to the City of Milaine sir, are you. View more context for this quotation
1852 G. Daniel Democritus in London xvii. 266 He [sc. Elkanah Settle] was the last of the Pageant-Poets to the City of London.
1913 Times 28 Mar. 6/1 Enjoying the favour of the City authorities for many years, Anthony Munday was their pageant-poet..until within a few years of his death.
2003 R. Barbour Before Orientalism iii. 69 As a dramatist turned pageant poet, [George] Peele..opened the way for Anthony Munday, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, and Thomas Heywood.
pageant-silver n. now historical = pageant money n.
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society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > contributions for specific purposes
sowl-silver?1292
pageant-silvera1430
pageant money1525
pageant-pence1551
soul pencea1556
letter money1703
a1430 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1915) II. 179 (MED) Thay asked of tham pagand sylver.
1492 in L. T. Smith York Plays (1885) Introd. p. xxiii (note) Paiaunt silver.
1893 K. Lee Bates Eng. Relig. Drama ii. 39 Each company appointed two pageant-masters, who controlled the pageant-silver, a fund made up by contributions from the members.
1962 P. M. Kendall Yorkist Age i. i. 66 Dues called ‘pageant-pence’ or ‘pageant-silver’ were collected from each gild member.
pageant stage n. a stage on which a pageant is performed (in quot. 1659 used attributively: vain or ostentatious).
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1659 Parl. Speech Other Ho. 4 To these we are to stand bare, whilst their pageant stage Lordships daign to give us a conference upon their Breeches.
1809 R. Heber Europe 12 While youth's enervate glance and gloating age Hang o'er the mazy waltz, or pageant stage.
1985 E. Leonard Glitz xiv. 120 She was still a great big Miss American beauty. He could see her up on the pageant stage.
pageant thing n. Obsolete something insubstantial or illusory.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol
godeOE
anlikenessOE
stockc1000
mammetc1225
Mahometc1275
Mahoundc1275
idola1325
simulacre1382
marmoseta1398
mammetrya1400
puppet1534
poppet?1548
block1570
Dagona1572
pagoda1582
pagody1588
Mokisso1634
poppet deitya1641
pageant idol1696
pageant thing1696
afgod1769
cult figure1895
the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [noun] > unsubstantiality or lack of substance > something lacking substance > a thing that is merely a vain show
phantom1637
pageant idol1696
pageant thing1696
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun] > something showy
alchemy1547
bubble1598
Sodom apple1605
pageant1608
tinsel1660
pageant idol1696
pageant thing1696
Sodom fruit1737
1696 N. Tate & N. Brady New Version Psalms of David cxv. 6 The Pageant-thing has Ears and Nose, But neither hears nor smells.
1799 J. Grahame Wallace i. iii. 13 He'll name, Supported by the foolish Commons' voice, Some pliant, pageant thing, who'll wield the sceptre At his high nod.
1851 G. Croly World in Scenes from Script. 146 A pageant thing of parent, child, and bride, All, atoms floating down Time's restless tide.
pageant vehicle n. a vehicle used in a pageant; (formerly) spec. = pageant cart n.
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1825 T. Sharp Diss. Pageants Coventry 18 The different Companies Accounts..refer to the Pageant vehicles.
1955 Speculum 30 682 He has much to tell us, for example, about the vague subject of pageant vehicles and the layout of pageant stages and of the history of the Chester plays in the light of the record.
1998 Business Wire (Nexis) 5 Mar. Official [Miss USA] pageant vehicles provided by Pontiac.
pageant wagon n. = pageant cart n.
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1892 Mod. Lang. Notes 7 170/2 There were with some of the York pageants representations accompanying the pageant wagon, such as paintings on flags, or, as seems more probable, the actors themselves posed in tableaux, and the pageant passed from station to station.
1932 T. W. Stevens Theatre vii. 61 The pageant wagon, interesting in itself, was a sterile device.
1987 Daily Tel. Weekend 18 July x. 4 The original pageants were spontaneous entertainments devised by local folk to amuse monarchs on royal progresses, and ‘pageant wagon’ was the name given to the cart on which each trade guild performed its mobile tableau in the medieval mystery play cycles.
pageant wheel n. Obsolete a wheel on a pageant cart.
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1584 in T. Sharp Cov. Myst. (1825) 38 Payde for sope for the pagent wheles iiijd.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

pageantv.

Brit. /ˈpadʒ(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈpædʒ(ə)nt/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pageant n.
Etymology: < pageant n. N.E.D. (1904) also gives the pronunciation (pēi·-) /ˈpeɪ-/ for the first syllable.
1.
a. transitive. To exhibit (a person, idea, etc.) in or as if in a pageant or procession.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [verb (transitive)] > go through in procession > carry in procession
procession1546
pageant1606
1606 G. Chapman Gentleman Vsher i. sig. B Alph. What, think you sonne we meane t'expresse a speech Of speciall weight without a like attire? Vin. Excuse me then my lord; so stands it well. Stro. Haz brought them rarely in, to pageant him.
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 5 Even that Feast of love and heavenly-admitted fellowship..became the Subject of horror, and glouting adoration, pageanted about, like a dreadfull Idol.
1660 J. Milton Readie Way Free Commonw. 4 To pageant himself up and down in progress among the perpetual bowings and cringings of an abject people.
1892 R. Hovey Marriage of Guenevere iv. iii, in Launcelot & Guenevere 207 The pomp Of his victorious arms will only serve To pageant out his shame.
1950 A. P. Rossiter Eng. Drama 167 The contemporary evils here pageanted can be looked up in Trevelyan.
2000 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 1 May 106 Fresh from their highly successful Adelaide Festival performances, the quartet pageanted their recently acquired repertoire in this rarified setting.
b. transitive. To honour with a pageant. Obsolete. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [verb (transitive)] > go through in procession > honour with pageant
pageant1891
1891 Murray's Mag. Oct. 599 She who once pageanted with sumptuous pomp victorious Doges returning trophy-laden.
2. transitive. To mimic or imitate in an exaggerated manner, as though acting in a pageant. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > caricature or pastiche
pageant1609
pastiche1914
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 151 With ridiculous and sillie action, Which (slanderer) he Imitation calls, He pageants vs. View more context for this quotation
1825 W. Tennant John Baliol III. i. 76 By and by, Began the process of inauguration, Crowning, and baptism with the church's oil,..shouldering the golden-knobbed sceptre, And fumbling the superb ring up the finger,..—All to a jot were nicely pageanted.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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