pageanteer

Noun

pageanteer (plural pageanteers)

1. One who produces a pageant.
   • This show is being put on by Edward Hungerford, the master pageanteer, with a cast of some 250 people.1937, Association of American Railroads. Signal Section, Proceedings - Volume 36, page 271
   • The pageanteer, then, must be an effective scenewright as well as playwright. Spectacle is another demand often placed upon a pageant-drama.1966, George McCalmon, Christian Hollis Moe, Creating historical drama
2. One who performs a role in a pageant.
   • We found that he had no real connexion with any church nor with the L.M.S., but had somehow managed to get enrolled as a pageanteer, with the intention, no doubt, of rifling any pockets that he found convenient.1922, Arthur Porritt, The Best I Remember, page 90
   • It was not, by a long way, every pageanteer who could afford to order or hire robes, cloaks, tunics, head-dresses from the professionals. Plenty of the smaller “parts” cut out their own costumes and held sewing-bees, sometimes at one house in the Pageant's neighbourhood, sometimes in another.1940, Berta Ruck, Money Isn't Everything, page 122
3. A contestant in a beauty contest.
   • For some women, this is their first pageant experience, while others are 'career' pageanteers, who started as young as four.2002, Keith Lovegrove, Pageant: The Beauty Contest
   • Already a model and formidable pageanteer —a runner-up in the 2006 Miss Paraguay contest—expect her to segue into a pitchwoman for digital cameras or cereal.2008, Esquire: The Magazine for Men - Volume 150, page 121