0 a competition for young women in which they are judged on their beauty and other qualities:
1 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 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.
中文繁体
(女子的)選美比賽, 露天演出的歷史劇, 華麗的展示…
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(女子的)选美竞赛, 露天演出的历史剧, 华丽的展示…
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concurso de belleza, espectáculo histórico, representación…
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concurso de beleza, espetáculo público…
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temsili gösteri, şov, resmî geçit…
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spectacle historique, cortège, spectacle…
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živý obraz, podívaná…
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optog, festspil…
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