pageantry

How To Use pageantry In A Sentence

• Thousands of visitors are set to descend on York when the five-day festival of horse racing and pageantry comes to the city in June next year.
• The year is filled with important religious events, and all localities are identified with patron saints who are celebrated, somewhat competitively, with fireworks and festa pageantry, including processions.
• The natives so embraced the pageantry and the promise of the new faith; and centuries later, testament to that Christian hegemony is the ubiquity of an iconolatry, none as dispersed into the bowels of urban and rural religious life as the icon of the Santo Nino.
• By the 19th century the play had been transformed into a spectacle of patriotic pageantry celebrating imperial Britain and the glory of its military.
• Up to 200 men, women and children will be dressed in costume for this piece of street-theatre and pageantry.
• The crowd roared approval before departing content after another spectacular display of British pomp and pageantry. Times, Sunday Times
• The crowd roared approval before departing content after another spectacular display of British pomp and pageantry. Times, Sunday Times
• She loved the pageantry and tradition of the Royal Family.
• We enjoy the pomp and the pageantry around our monarchy. The Sun
• Along with their other accessories, the warriors' elaborate dress suggests that they brought both wealth and pageantry to combat, which Donnan likens to medieval jousts.