Pageantry is splendid ceremonial display. Royal pageantry, all the pageantry of the occasion.
It is uniforms, horses and timing, and it exists to be looked at. Pageantry is the part of an institution that survives after the power has gone.
1nounpageantrySplendid ceremonial display.
“The pageantry was rehearsed for three months.”
pageantry is a display.
Proto-Indo-European
*peh₂ǵ-
Latin
pāgina — page of a book
Medieval Latin
pagina — play in a cycle of mystery plays
Middle English
pagent
English
pageant
English, today
pageantry
From pageant + -ry. pageant Late 14 as Middle English pagent, from Medieval Latin pagina (“play in a cycle of mystery plays”), perhaps from Latin pāgina (“page of a book”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA