pageant
选美,选美比赛,选拔赛,选美活动
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- : an elaborate public spectacle illustrative of the history of a place, institution, or the like, often given in dramatic form or as a procession of colorful floats.
- : a costumed procession, masque, allegorical tableau, or the like forming part of public or social festivities.
- : a show or exhibition, especially one consisting of a succession of participants or events: a beauty pageant.
- : something comparable to a procession in colorful variety, splendor, or grandeur: the pageant of Renaissance history.
- : a pretentious display or show that conceals a lack of real importance or meaning.
- : a platform or stage, usually moving on wheels, on which scenes from mystery plays were presented.
- : display or pageantry.
- : Obsolete. a stage bearing any kind of spectacle.
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Though Willowdean, cruelly nicknamed “Dumplin’” by her mother, is comfortable in her own skin, she wants to shake up her conservative town, and spite her mother, by participating in the pageant.
I was invited to participate in a homecoming queen pageant, which was in Atlanta.
When she informed local pageant directors that she wanted public awareness of the disease as her issue, they winced and asked if she had a second choice.
Arguably the most famous of these pageant winners, however, was Miss Atomic Bomb 1957, Copa showgirl Lee Merlin, who wore fluffy cotton mushroom clouds attached to the front of her swimsuit while flashing a 1,000-watt smile.
Just like radioactive fallout, even atomic bombshell pageants and their sylphlike winners had a half-life.
Myerson herself appears to have bought into that stigma, offering mixed to negative views on the Miss America pageant.
In 1995, Myerson made a point not to attend the 75th anniversary of the Miss America pageant.
The mayor responded defiantly with a kind of military pageant that was truly bizarre for such a secretive organization.
She reluctantly agreed to make her grams happy, and participated in the Miss Universe Canada pageant, placing in the top 15.
Reform first came in 1935 when Lenora Slaughter was hired to re-invent the pageant as its new director.
The virtuous Almahide is a fit object for the adoration of Almanzor; but her husband is a poor of royalty.