| 单词 | pageant car |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspageant car pageant car n. now historical = pageant cart n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > movable or temporary scaffoldc1405 pageant1450 pegma1604 pageant car1803 street theatre1882 1803 A. Candler Julia's Bridal Day in Poet. Attempts 28 What fav'rite has the goddess found To share her pageant car, That airy regions echo round And answer from afar? 1918 Mod. Lang. Notes 33 10 The fact that in these early pageantic Lord Mayor's shows, there was usually but one pageant, may have influenced the change in the meaning of this word from ‘pageant-car’—or what today we should call ‘float’—to a ‘brilliant spectacle,’ whether or not there was a pageant in it. 1997 S. Anglo Spectacle, Pageantry, & Early Tudor Policy iii. 100 The last day of the tournament..was also characterized by splendid entries, including the challengers riding within a pageant car of cloth of gold drawn by two lions, a white hart, and an ibex—each consisting of two men, their legs, suitably disguised, ‘aloonly apperyng’. < as lemmas |
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