pageant

Universal Words noun 1 a public entertainment in which people dress in historical COSTUMES and give performances of scenes from history 2 (AmE) a competition for young women in which their beauty, personal qualities and skills are judged: a beauty pageant compareBEAUTYCONTEST 3 ~ (of sth) (literary) something that is considered as a series of interesting and different events: life's rich pageant \