Pageant

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle. "A pageant truly played." Shak. To see sad pageants of men's miseries. Spenser.

2. An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display. The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day ! Pope. We love the man, the paltry pageant you. Cowper.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic. [R.] "He pageants us." Shak.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular. "Pageant pomp." Dryden.