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  • adjective Resembling a pageant.

Etymologies

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pageant +‎ -like

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Examples

  • "Titanic" could be called the first "Masterpiece Theatre" musical, moving at a stately, pageantlike pace, illustrating rather than illuminating the tragedy.

    Is Broadway Rhythm Back? 2008

  • SoHo Playhouse, 15 Van Dam Street, South Village 'Korach' Sixty-three years after co-founding the Living Theater, Judith Malina is the writer and director of this pageantlike examination of the anarchist faction that took on Moses and lost.

    NYT > Home Page By THE NEW YORK TIMES 2011

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