pageanteer

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   One who produces a pageant.

   • This show is being put on by Edward Hungerford, the master pageanteer, with a cast of some 250 people.
   • The pageanteer, then, must be an effective scenewright as well as playwright. Spectacle is another demand often placed upon a pageant-drama.
2. 2

   One who performs a role in a pageant.

   • We found that he had no real connexion with any church nor with the L.M.S., but had somehow managed to get enrolled as a pageanteer, with the intention, no doubt, of rifling any pockets that he found convenient.
   • However, she also resented the fact that the titled women were given the more aristocratic pageant roles, in contradiction of the usual pageant ideal where pageanteers assumed roles that were the reverse of their own position in society.
3. 3

   A contestant in a beauty contest.

   • For some women, this is their first pageant experience, while others are 'career' pageanteers, who started as young as four.
   • Already a model and formidable pageanteer —a runner-up in the 2006 Miss Paraguay contest—expect her to segue into a pitchwoman for digital cameras or cereal.
   • Nadja had not thought of the word elegant since her mother made her model for no real occasion one sequined monstrosity after another at Denise's Bridal Affair, pretending her daughter was a pageanteer and hadn't maxed out at a B-cup.

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