Definition of beauty pageant
:a contest in which people judge a group of women or girls and decide which one is the most beautiful :beauty contest
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beauty pageant
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beauty
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: the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit : loveliness
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: a beautiful person or thing
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: a particularly graceful, ornamental, or excellent quality
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pageant
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: a mere show : pretense
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: an ostentatious display
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: show, exhibition
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