A pageant is a show or competition where people, often young girls or women, dress up in beautiful costumes and show off their talents and beauty. Full definition
A beauty pageant of all the beautiful young unmarried women of the land, just for him. (redeeminggod.com)
Laguna Beach is the home of Pageants of the Master and Sawdust Festival. (travellermade.com)
The hillbilly brothers, one of whom prominently sports a «Dangerus» tattoo on his arm, may be reproachable and is anyone completely comfortable with the child beauty pageants in which Jimmy's daughter is active? (dvdizzy.com)