pageantry
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Yet beneath the emotional tributes and patriotic pageantry, a dangerous sporting test awaits.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Mostly they knowingly forfeit the cash to have their 15 minutes in the limelight, sending up the pageantry of British politics.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026
That it was live television and just this pageantry of people congratulating themselves, congratulating each other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
The last of these, with its red-white-and-blue pageantry dripping with patriotic pride, seems to be of particular interest to the president.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
I never get tired of this—of the spectacle, of the pageantry.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
An arrival ceremony on the South Lawn ranks among the most regal of pageantries that Washington has to offer, reserved usually for the most important of visitors and even then for special occasions.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2015
He has conceived scintillating decors for Ziegfeld pageantries.
From Time Magazine Archive
These pageantries were of frequent occurrence, and the pages of the picturesque old chronicler above-cited abound with descriptions of them.
From The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth
The Dead Boxer again had recourse to his pageantries of death.
From The Dead Boxer The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton
He revisited again, in thought, the blooming grove of Capreæ, the pageantries of Cesarea, the green lanes of Buckingham, the luxurious salon of Paris, and the twilight of the garden of Wahring.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various
