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Webster 1913 Edition

(-ry̆)

Noun.

Scenic shows or spectacles, taken collectively; spectacular quality; splendor.

Such

pageantry

be to the people shown.

Dryden.

The

pageantry

of festival.

J. A. Symonds.

Syn. – Pomp; parade; show; display; spectacle.

pageantry ‎(plural pageantries)

A pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant.
- 1609: William Shakespeare, Pericles (V, 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, ...

A colourful show or display