Dictionary Entry

pageant

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈpædʒənt/Used In Literature ↓

A competition in which participants compete for a determination that one is the most physically attractive.

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Poetry examples for “pageant”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Wuen I watch the living meet,
And the moving pageant file
Warm and breathing through the street

Thus unlamented pass the proud away,
The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day!
So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow

Or Nymph, or Goddess, at high tide of feast,
In masque or pageant at my father’s court. 195
We sent mine host to purchase female gear ;

And the panting breath of the dogs I love.
The pageant of Autumn follows its course
And the blue sky of Autumn laughs above.

The Key-Note
The Months: A Pageant
Pastime

Or what we may have wrung from him, the buyer?
The pageant of his failure-laden years
Told ruin of high price. The place was higher.

His bright inheritance of golden fruits,
A pomp and pageant fill the splendid scene.

_Elsie._ What a gay pageant! what bright dresses!
It looks like a flower besprinkled meadow.

And like this insubstantiall Pageant faded
Leaue not a racke behind we are such stuffe

"Lastly, The Pope, in a lofty, glorious pageant, representing a
chair of state, covered with scarlet, richly embroidered and