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单词 to play one's pageant
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to play one's pageant
b. figurative. A part played by someone in a situation; the role which a person takes in life, in society, etc. Esp. in to play one's pageant: to act one's part. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > behave, conduct, or bear oneself [verb (intransitive)] > behave or make as though
to find one's countenanceOE
to make (a) countenancec1380
to play one's pageanta1425
to play (also act) a (also one's) part1540
the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > assumption of behaviour or attitudes > part played or assumed by a person
personc1230
pageanta1425
partc1450
cue1581
role1606
figurea1616
mantle1658
assumption1871
a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 129 (MED) Þes pagyn playen þei þat hiden þe treuþe of Goddis lawe.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 759 Yondyr rydyth a knyght that playith his pageauntes.
a1545 Deth Edwarde IV in J. Skelton Certayne Bks. (c1563) 85 I haue pleyd my pageyond, now am I past.
1591–2 Rob Stene's Dream (1836) 17 Ȝe his jugling can not see..Quhill he haif plaid his padȝeane weill.
1848 D. Greenwell Dream of Poet's Youth in Poems 2 Sore task, again to play the pageant through, And brace these wearied sinews to the fray.
1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic lxiii We must play the pageant out.
extracted from pageantn.adj.
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