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Definition of Pageants
1. pageant [n] - See also: pageant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pageants
Literary usage of Pageants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Probably the largest of all pageants in point of numbers. ... For complete lists
of pageants, and for all details of construction, selection and production, ..."
2. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"209, and which agrees pretty exactly with the above description ; from the
inscriptions upon this draw ing it appears that the pageants remained "for an ..."
3. Ancient Mysteries Described,: Especially the English Miracle Plays, Founded by William Hone (1823)
"AKTON thinks that the pageants, which on civil occasions derived great part of
their decorations and actors from historical fact, and consequently made ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1905)
"Judging from many of the prints and pictures of the old pageants they must have
been far inferior in all these points, and therefore in beauty and dignity; ..."
5. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (2001)
"SPLENDID pageants AND GREAT BONFIRES." Mere acquaintances hugged and kissed each
other and cried. Everybody took a holiday, ..."
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