Usually means: Elaborate display or ceremony spectacle.
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  1. pageantry: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pageantry: Merriam-Webster
  3. pageantry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pageantry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pageantry: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pageantry: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pageantry, pageantry: Wordnik
  8. pageantry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pageantry: Wiktionary
  10. pageantry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pageantry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pageantry: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pageantry, pageantry: Dictionary.com
  14. pageantry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pageantry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. pageantry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. pageantry: Rhymezone
  18. Pageantry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. pageantry: FreeDictionary.org
  20. pageantry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. pageantry: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pageantry: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  A pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant.

Similar:
pageant, parade, panacherie, pompatus, pantomime, prancing, puppetry, panegyris, harlequinade, peanism, more...

Opposite:
simplicity, plainness, modesty

Phrases:
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Adjectives:
gorgeous, splendid, civic, historical, much, military, royal, colorful, medieval, religious, elaborate

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     royal blue,     ruby red,     sapphire blue, more...



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Similar:
pageant, parade, panacherie, pompatus, pantomime, prancing, puppetry, panegyris, harlequinade, peanism, more...

Opposite:
simplicity, plainness, modesty

Phrases:
Drag pageantry, more...

Adjectives:
gorgeous, splendid, civic, historical, much, military, royal, colorful, medieval, religious, elaborate

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     royal blue,     ruby red,     sapphire blue, more...



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