| 单词 | pageant wagon |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspageant wagon pageant wagon n. = pageant cart n. ΚΠ 1892 Mod. Lang. Notes 7 170/2 There were with some of the York pageants representations accompanying the pageant wagon, such as paintings on flags, or, as seems more probable, the actors themselves posed in tableaux, and the pageant passed from station to station. 1932 T. W. Stevens Theatre vii. 61 The pageant wagon, interesting in itself, was a sterile device. 1987 Daily Tel. Weekend 18 July x. 4 The original pageants were spontaneous entertainments devised by local folk to amuse monarchs on royal progresses, and ‘pageant wagon’ was the name given to the cart on which each trade guild performed its mobile tableau in the medieval mystery play cycles. < as lemmas |
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