1. pageant - Noun
2. pageant - Adjective
3. pageant - Verb
A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle.
An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display.
Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular.
To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. Wallace Stevens
When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear. Edward Everett
Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally. Donna Rice
I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here. Clay Aiken
Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side. Maria Menounos
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. Augustine Birrell