Glitter vs Pageantry - What's the difference?
glitter | pageantry | Synonyms |
A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.
A shiny, decorative adornment, sometimes sprinkled on glue to make simple artwork.
To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.
* Dryden
To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive.
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, ...
Glitter is a synonym of pageantry.
As nouns the difference between glitter and pageantry
is that glitter is a bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage while pageantry is a pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant.As a verb glitter
is to sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.glitter
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(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- a glittering sword
- the glittering ornaments on a Christmas tree
- The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.
- the glittering scenes of a court
