PAGEANT

n. a. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle. "A pageant truly played." Shak. To see sad pageants of men's miseries. Spenser.

2.
n.

An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display. The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day ! Pope. We love the man, the paltry pageant you. Cowper.

3.
a.

Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular. "Pageant pomp." Dryden.

4.
v.

To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic. [R.] "He pageants us." Shak.

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