| 词汇 | pageant |
| 释义 | pageant noun[ C ] uk /ˈpædʒ.ənt/ us /ˈpædʒ.ənt/ mainly US especially in the past, a competition in which young women and girls are judged on their beauty and other qualities: （女子的）选美竞赛 a beauty pageant选美竞赛 UK a show, usually performed outside, that consists of people wearing traditional clothing and acting out historical events: 露天演出的历史剧 Our youngest son is taking part in the school pageant.我们的小儿子将参加学校的露天历史剧演出。 any colourful and impressive show or ceremony华丽的展示;盛大的庆典 Competitions, & parts of competitions bathing beauty battle of witsidiom be a game of two halvesidiom beauty contest beauty pageant benefit match bowl championship elimination tournament kickabout non-game non-major omnium on your marks, get set, go!idiom postgame Rafferty's rules round robin starter under starter's ordersidiom winning post You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Spectacles & performances Ceremonies pageant | American Dictionarypageant noun[ C ] us/ˈpædʒ·ənt/ a show, celebration, or parade (= a large number of people walking or marching together), esp. one in which people wear special clothing or act out events from the past: the Miss Chinatown pageant Our school held a Pageant of Great Women. pageantrynoun[ U ]us/ˈpædʒ·ən·tri/ Between games, the traditional pageantry includes the Parade of Champions. Examples of pageantpageant The conversational data led me to seek out other texts that contained references to body size, beauty pageants, and gendered practices of watching one's weight. Moreover, despite their historical import, such dynastic pageants were usually dramatized in terms that emphasized the divine, providential mystery of the royal line of descent. The neo-feudal ethos of the pageants only thinly concealed a rivalrous relationship, in which merchants liked to represent themselves as the peers of kings. Because only the monarch and his entourage moved past each of the stationary pageants, the potential for dramatic development and discursive connection was strictly limited. The polygonal architecture, niches, and parapets of these structures readily accommodated the pageants built on, around, or near them. During spectacles and pageants, monarchs consolidated their authority by exposing themselves to the gaze of their subjects. There was a concomitant development of a sense of town history, conveyed through pageants, local chronicles and compilations of records and mayoral portraits. Also, this diverse theatrical life was often built upon local medieval traditions (liturgical dialogues, mystery plays, passion plays, pageants), school drama, and aristocratic court theatre. The years pass in parade like pageants in a dream. The pageants shared with traditional renewal rites an agonistic structure, in which the "passage from chaos to cosmos" was enacted as a primordial battle between creative and destructive forces. Only when the values of this group were transformed by their dissemination in pamphlets, plays, and pageants by popular writers did they begin to have wide-spread appeal and innovative potential. Besides obvious affiliations with the stage and opera, the mayoral pageants were didactic, employing historical settings not unlike those in the heroic plays so popular at the commercial theaters. While positive aspects of beauty pageants exist, the detrimental features of parents encouraging participation in such spectacles exemplify youthful beauty pageants as an unfavorable family practice. Because of the numerous negative psychological, emotional, and physical constraints that participation in beauty pageants applies to young girls, it should entirely be considered an unfavorable and destructive family practice. Rudiments of the mythmaking that would support this sense of destiny, finally, were also adumbrated with the publication of the first inaugural pageants of the 1580s. See all examples of pageant These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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