Pageantry vs Spectacle - What's the difference?
pageantry | spectacle | 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, ...
Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
An exciting exhibition, performance or event.
An embarrassing situation
(usually, in the plural) An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light.
(figuratively) An aid to the intellectual sight.
* Chaucer
(obsolete) A spyglass; a looking-glass.
The brille of a snake.
Pageantry is a synonym of spectacle.
As nouns the difference between pageantry and spectacle
is that pageantry is a pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant while spectacle is something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant.pageantry
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(en noun)- In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
- He made a spectacle out of himself
- Poverty a spectacle is, as thinketh me, Through which he may his very friends see.