pageant
noun /ˈpædʒənt/
/ˈpædʒənt/
- a public entertainment in which people dress in historical costumes and give performances of scenes from history
- They were filming a colourful pageant about Scotland’s past.
- (North American English) a competition for young women in which their beauty, personal qualities and skills are judged
- a beauty pageant
- pageant (of something) (literary) something that is considered as a series of interesting and different events
- life’s rich pageant
Word Originlate Middle English pagyn, of unknown origin.