English主要词典
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
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