Pageants
[pædʒənts]
Examples
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- 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. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But at all the dismal dinners, leaden lunches, basilisk balls, and other melancholy pageants, her mere appearance is a relief. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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