late 14c., "play in a cycle of mystery plays," from Medieval Latin pagina, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Latin pagina "page of a book" (see page (n.1)) on notion of "manuscript" of a play.
But an early sense in Middle English also was "stage or scene of a play" (late 14c.) and Klein says a sense of Latin pagina was "movable scaffold" (probably from the etymological sense of "stake"). With excrescent -t as in ancient (adj.). Generalized sense of "showy parade, spectacle" is first attested 1805, though this notion is found in pageantry (1650s).
例文
1. Rain chilled the glittering pageant .
雨は華麗な祝祭を大いに見劣りさせた。
2.Our pageant represented scenes from history.
私たちの野外時代劇が幕を開ける歴史的事件。
3.The pageant promses to be a curious mixture of the ancient and modern.
パレードの祭典は、古さと現代の奇抜な融合になるだろう。
4.In August 1968 women held a demonstration at the Miss America Beauty Pageant .
1968年8月、ミス?アメリカコンテストで女性のデモが行われた。
5.To me the pageant of seasons is a thrilling and unending drama.