Definitions for pageantry

pageantry pag·eant·ry

Spelling: [paj-uh n-tree]
IPA: /ˈpædʒ ən tri/

Pageantry is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 417 anagrams from letters in pageantry (aaegnprty).

Definitions for pageantry

noun

  1. spectacular display; pomp:
  2. mere show; empty display.
  3. pageants collectively; pageants and the performance of pageants.

Origin of pageantry

First recorded in 1600-10; pageant + -ry

Examples for pageantry

Cannons were fired, brass bands played, and American-inspired pomp and pageantry abounded.

He began the battle with all the solemnity and pageantry of a hero of romance.

Nor does this mission march always with the pageantry of external triumph.

In pageantry, and especially equestrian pageantry, he is most effective.

At all these places he was received with great parade and pageantry.

But recently, news broke of a woman who claimed to be blowing the lid off a "dirty little secret" of pageantry.

But pleasure, pomp, and pageantry were not the sole uses of these guilds in olden days.

Even though it was Ronald Reagan coming through the door, I loved the pageantry.

A papal visit, by definition, is freighted with emotion and pageantry.

Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.

Word Value for pageantry
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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