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Pageantry vs Assortment - What's the difference?

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Pageantry is a related term of assortment.


As nouns the difference between pageantry and assortment

is that pageantry is a pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant while assortment is a collection of varying but related items.

pageantry

English

Noun

(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, ...

    • assortment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A collection of varying but related items.
    • This box has an assortment of chocolates, there's a picture on the cover so you know which is which.

    Synonyms

    * diversity, Whitman's sampler * See also