pageantry - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • occasion: For the crowds that thronged to the Memorial Cross there was all the color and pageantry of a military occasion.
  • tradition: The Celtic Calendar will enable Celts all over the world to recapture their rich pageantry of traditions, knowledge and spiritual beliefs.

Adjective modifier

  • civic: Good morrow my masters all - playing music as they performed their night watch duties as well as in civic pageantry.
  • colorful: You'll also see the Windsor Changing of the Guard in all its colorful pageantry and splendor - don't forget your camera!
  • traditional: It was a great subversion of traditional pageantry through anarchic carnival.
  • British: Now, I love British pageantry and the phlegmatic strength of the British character.
  • festive: All that stuff about the Virgin Mary, all the festive pageantry of myth.
  • historic: Say hello to ' Snap ' , our famous snapdragon, who was once part of the Norwich's historic pageantry.

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