pageant

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an elaborate public spectacle, procession, or competition

   The town staged a historical pageant each summer.

From Middle English pagent, pageant 'a scene of a mystery play, movable stage', from Anglo-Latin pagina, perhaps from Latin pagina 'page, leaf' (in the sense of a section of a play); of uncertain development, with the final -t unexplained.

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