单词	pageant
释义	pageantpag‧eant /ˈpædʒənt/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINpageant Origin: 1300-1400 Medieval Latin pagina ‘scene of a play’, from Latin, ‘page’; ➔ PAGE1 Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Parents came to see their children in the annual Christmas pageant. The pageant of African history is so rich and various. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS And all our actors have taken themselves off and deserted our little pageant, see? Does a small-town pageant sound like comedy material? From inside, they heard the pageant rolled over on its back. He was representing the former Lords of the Manor at the pageant. In the nineteenth century this leisurely view of the pageant of time began to speed up. The latter group -- of which there are 288 this year -- must apply to participate in the pageant by January. Their coming was unheralded by any pomp and pageant whatever... word sets WORD SETS► History age, nounallied, adjectivebarbarian, nounbaroque, adjectivebarrow, nounbattlements, nounbestiary, nounbiography, nounBlack Death, the, bloodletting, nounchivalry, nouncircus, nounclassical, adjectivecolony, nounconquistador, noundolmen, noundominion, noundoublet, noundragoon, nounducking stool, noundunce's cap, nounEdwardian, adjectiveElizabethan, adjectiveepoch, nounera, nounfeudalism, nounforum, noungalleon, noungalley, noungenealogy, noungladiator, nounGraeco-, prefixGrecian, adjectiveGreco-, prefixHellene, nounHellenic, adjectiveherald, nounhighwayman, nounhistorian, nounhistoric, adjectivehistorical, adjectiveIce Age, nounindustrial archaeology, nounIndustrial Revolution, the, nouninterwar, adjectiveIron Curtain, the, Jacobite, nounlocal history, nounlord, nounmedieval, adjectiveMoorish, adjectiveNorman, adjectiveNorse, adjectivepage, nounpageant, nounpaladin, nounpalimpsest, nounpapyrus, nounparchment, nounpatrician, adjectivepennon, nounperiod piece, nounprehistoric, adjectiveprehistory, nounquarterstaff, nounredcoat, nounreeve, nounRegency, adjectiveRomano-, prefixromanticism, nountime capsule, nounTudor, adjectiveVictorian, adjectiveVictorian, nounWhig, nounzeitgeist, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► beauty · Boxing champion Mike Tyson was, of course, convicted in the 1992 rape of a beauty pageant contestant.· A beauty pageant, of course. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► the pageant of something In the nineteenth century this leisurely view of the pageant of time began to speed up. 1an organized public show, often performed outdoors, where people dress in decorated or unusual clothes:  a colourful pageant of Scotland’s past2American English a public competition for young women in which their appearance, and sometimes other qualities, are compared and judged SYN  beauty contest3 the pageant of something literary a series of historical events that are interesting and important:  the pageant of African history
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