The word "pageantry" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to a public display of pomp and ceremony. For example, "The colorful pageantry of the Mardi Gras parade always draws large crowds."
But like a teenager's bedroom, it will become a mess much sooner than looks possible amid the order and pageantry of the parliament's opening day.
At the Oscars, she never had that look of being cowed or over-awed by all the pomp and pageantry.
In truth Norman St John-Stevas, who died on March 2nd, aged 82, drew delight and succour from pageantry and tradition as others take warmth from the sun.An important memory dated back to his teenage years, when the future academic, journalist and Conservative politician watched the wedding procession of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip.
Seeing a film on a big screen amid a faint buzz of excitement lets them better imagine its commercial prospects, a few months down the line.The pageantry can look silly from a distance so many strutting peacocks but within the industry it is deadly serious.
Each one is illustrated with pieces that combine pageantry with emotional appeal.
The whimsy of the British performance at the Olympic handover, featuring twirling umbrellas and a doubledecker bus, suggested that Britain would not attempt to match the pageantry and stadiums that cost China billions.
Others called it the Methodism in her madness.For students of pageantry, there were rich pickings: ermine robes, garters borne on cushions, ancient orders of precedence and the Lord Mayor wielding an impressive black blade the mourning sword.
Unusually, the annual summit of the six-member club of Arab oil monarchies packed more politics than pageantry.
On May 25th the monarch delivered the Queen's Speech, amid the traditional pageantry of crowns and coaches, cavalrymen in dazzling cuirasses, Black Rod, trumpeters and Ken Clarke, the justice secretary and Lord Chancellor, wearing an absurd wig.
Many Russians might well agree with Mr Putin's description last week of the Soviet Union's collapse as the greatest geo-political catastrophe of the 20th century.That is why the principal audience for the Kremlin-sponsored pomp and pageantry next week will be a disillusioned domestic one.
The period between December, when Mr Sarkozy was photographed with Carla Bruni at the Disney princess parade, until the royal pageantry of a different sort during the state visit to Britain in March, after they married, felt like a bizarre interlude in French political life.
