A pageant can refer to:
- Procession or ceremony in elaborate costume
- Beauty pageant
- Religion:
- Medieval pageant, a narrative medieval procession connected with a festival
- Nativity play, or "Christmas pageant"
- Pageant (film), a documentary film that explores the dramas and realities of the Miss Gay America Contest
- Pageant (magazine), a 20th-century monthly periodical
- Pageant (musical), a 1991 Off Broadway musical by Robert Longbottom
- Pageant (song), a single by Moi dix Mois
- Pageant, a PuTTY SSH authentication agent
Famous quotes containing the word pageant:
“What helps it now, that Byron bore,
With haughty scorn which mock’d the smart,
Through Europe to the Aetolian shore
The pageant of his bleeding heart?
That thousands counted every groan,
And Europe made his woe her own?”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
“No Life can pompless pass away—
The lowliest career
To the same Pageant wends its way
As that exalted here—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
“The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)