pageant

s. cabalgata, desfile, exhibición al aire libre, pompa, procesión

desfile | cabalgata

Ex: The reader is like her: he sits watching the diverse pageant of human thought and human feeling passing across the gleaming mirror of literature.

(n.) = desfile, cabalgata, procesión
Ex: The reader is like her: he sits watching the diverse pageant of human thought and human feeling passing across the gleaming mirror of literature.
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* beauty pageant = concurso de misses, concurso de belleza