单词 | pageant-like |
释义 | pageant-likeadj.adv. Resembling a pageant; having the qualities of a pageant. Also as adv.: in the manner of a pageant. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [adjective] > parade or procession > pageant pageant-like1646 pageantic1825 1646 J. Cooke Vindic. Professors Law 68 I am perswaded that that which was formerly spent in Pageantlike vanities upon a Lord Mayors day, would have fed all the mendicant poore about the City. 1665 J. Crowne Pandion & Amphigenia ii. 298 The King thus forced to act over a Pageant-like shew of Majesty,..sits in the Throne, with a heavy but imperious look. 1845 Daily Advertiser 3 June Whatever is in itself good will always make its way, although not ushered into the world with pompous paragraphs or pageant-like puffs. 1883 L. H. Clark Mil. Hist. Wayne County N.Y. 334 Never before were the streets of Palmyra so gay and pageant-like. Flags by the hundreds were waving from the roofs and windows. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 3 Sept. 6/3 The artists who illustrate the book strengthen its pageant-like character. 1933 R. Tuve Seasons & Months i. 41 A pageant-like processional march of familiar figures. 1993 D. Schoenbaum U.S. & State of Israel xiii. 321 The Israeli Defense Ministry ran effective, pageant-like military exercises for visitors in tourist buses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.adv.1646 |
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