0 a dramatic performance made up of different, usually historical scenes, often performed during a procession -- การแสดงกลางแจ้งเกี่ยวกับเหตุการณ์ในอดีต
The children performed a historical pageant.
1 any fine show or display -- การแสดง
a pageant of colour/color.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The years pass in parade like pageants in a dream.
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.
