pageantryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæd͡ʒəntɹi/

名詞

pageantry (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 pageantries)

1. A pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant.
   • c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon,  […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     That you aptly will suppose / What pageantry, what feats, what shows, / What minstrelsy, and pretty din, / The regent made in Mytilene / To greet the king.

   • 1849, Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers:

     The world seemed decked for some holiday or prouder pageantry, with silken streamers flying, ...

   • 2019 May 8, Barney Ronay, The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Anfield had been the usual portable pageantry of flags and banners and songs before kick-off. With the sky still blue above the away end the Barcelona fans stood and watched and took pictures and joined in the pre-match round of You’ll Never Walk Alone.

   • 2023 May 6, James Poniewozik, “Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star?”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     But Harry, in his civilian suit, was also a reminder of the schism between the traditional and the modern in the royal family that can’t be drowned out by pageantry.