Pageantry vs Extravagance - What's the difference?
pageantry | extravagance | Synonyms |
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, ...
Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
Prodigality as in extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
:They spared nothing in obtaining extravagances for each other. Everything was lavish and wildly in excess. They were in love!
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*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
