pageantry
a colourful show
TRANSLATION
pageantry = das Gepränge, der Prunk (woerterbuch.info) --- GOOGLE INDEX pageantry: approximately 1,200,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
The Queen has celebrated her official birthday with the Trooping the Colour parade in central London. More than 1,100 soldiers took part in the display of military pomp and PAGEANTRY on Horse Guards Parade.
(BBC)
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China may have used the Olympic games to demonstrate its new power. What made them great for the rest of the world, however, was sport - pure and simple. London should have the confidence to concentrate on that, instead of the accompanying PAGEANTRY.
(The Guardian)
(BBC)
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China may have used the Olympic games to demonstrate its new power. What made them great for the rest of the world, however, was sport - pure and simple. London should have the confidence to concentrate on that, instead of the accompanying PAGEANTRY.
(The Guardian)
Did you
know?
pageantry
noun
- splendid, colourful and very expensive ceremonies
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Pageantry stems from pageant, a modern dramatic spectacle or procession celebrating a special occasion or an event in the history of a locality. In medieval times the word pageant meant the wagon or the movable stage on which one scene of a mystery or miracle play was performed.
The pageant was built on wheels and consisted of two rooms, the lower one being used as a dressing room and the upper used as a stage. The word also referred to the complex wooden machine-structures built for the Tudor masque, a courtly form of dramatic spectacle that was popular in England in the first half of the 17th century. The masque developed from the early 16th-century disguising, or mummery, in which disguised guests bearing presents would break into a festival and then join their hosts in a dance.
The modern form of the pageant came into general use in England and America with the production of L. N. Parker's Sherborne pageant in England in 1905. Pageants can range from small local festivals to spectacular shows like the Carnival or major sporting events such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup in football.
Etymological note: In addition to being used to describe a movable scaffold that was used as a stage play as previously described, pageant is also thought to have derived from the Latin "pagina," as in a page of a book, perhaps alluding to the manuscript of a stage play.
(source: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia® Copyright © 2007)
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SYNONYMS
ceremony, cortege, display, fanfare, fare, form, glitter, grandeur, parade, pride, ritual, show, spectacle, splendour, state, strut
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"We will need less pageantry and more substance at our next exhibition."
noun
- splendid, colourful and very expensive ceremonies
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Pageantry stems from pageant, a modern dramatic spectacle or procession celebrating a special occasion or an event in the history of a locality. In medieval times the word pageant meant the wagon or the movable stage on which one scene of a mystery or miracle play was performed.
The pageant was built on wheels and consisted of two rooms, the lower one being used as a dressing room and the upper used as a stage. The word also referred to the complex wooden machine-structures built for the Tudor masque, a courtly form of dramatic spectacle that was popular in England in the first half of the 17th century. The masque developed from the early 16th-century disguising, or mummery, in which disguised guests bearing presents would break into a festival and then join their hosts in a dance.
The modern form of the pageant came into general use in England and America with the production of L. N. Parker's Sherborne pageant in England in 1905. Pageants can range from small local festivals to spectacular shows like the Carnival or major sporting events such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup in football.
Etymological note: In addition to being used to describe a movable scaffold that was used as a stage play as previously described, pageant is also thought to have derived from the Latin "pagina," as in a page of a book, perhaps alluding to the manuscript of a stage play.
(source: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia® Copyright © 2007)
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SYNONYMS
ceremony, cortege, display, fanfare, fare, form, glitter, grandeur, parade, pride, ritual, show, spectacle, splendour, state, strut
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"We will need less pageantry and more substance at our next exhibition."
