• IPA: /ˈpædʒənt/

pageant (plural pageants)

1. An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume.

   Synonyms: spectacle

   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 4

     For a few moments the events of the day floated in disastrous pageant through my brain, till sleep bathed it in forgetfulness […]

2. A spectacular ceremony.
3. Ellipsis of beauty pageant#English|beauty pageant.

   Synonyms: beauty contest, beauty pageant

4. (obsolete) A wheeled platform for the exhibition of plays, etc.

• French: cortège
• German: Festzug
• Italian: parata, mostra, esposizione, esibizione, spettacolo pubblico
• Russian: зре́лище
• Spanish: muestra, cabalgata, comparsa

• French: spectacle
• Italian: cerimonia
• Russian: предста́вление
• Spanish: espectáculo, exhibición, ceremonia

pageant (pageants, present participle pageanting; past and past participle pageanted)

1. To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iii]:

     He pageants us.