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pageaunt

pageaunt is the obsolete form of pageant.

Meaning of pageant

Noun

pageant (plural pageants)

  1. An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume.
    • For a few moments the events of the day floated in disastrous pageant through my brain, till sleep bathed it in forgetfulness […]1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    spectacle
  2. A spectacular ceremony.
  3. (obsolete) A wheeled platform for the exhibition of plays, etc.

See all 4 meanings of pageant

Forms of pageaunt

pluralpageaunts

Questions about pageaunt

What is pageaunt the obsolete form of?
Pageaunt is the obsolete form of pageant.

Words near pageaunt in the dictionary

  1. pageantitis
  2. pageantlike
  3. pageantries
  4. pageantry
  5. pageants
  6. pageaunt
  7. pageaunts
  8. pageboy
  9. pageboys
  10. paged
  11. paged down

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pageaunt (page history and authors); pageant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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