Pageant

(noun.) an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes.

(noun.) a rich and spectacular ceremony.

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• We can not see the long array of chariots and mail-clad men laden with the spoils of conquest, but we can imagine the pageant, after a fashion. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Even this day's pageant had not proceeded without the consent of the despised Jew, who furnished the means. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Brilliant arc lamps, rivaling the sun in power, make night into day, and produce along our streets coruscations, silhouettes, and dancing shadows in spectacular and unceasing pageants. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• When Percy MacKaye pleads for pageants in which the people themselves participate, he offers an opportunity for expressing some of the lusts of the city in the form of an art. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But at all the dismal dinners, leaden lunches, basilisk balls, and other melancholy pageants, her mere appearance is a relief. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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