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noun
Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
To make a pompous display.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
To pamper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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noun
ceremonial elegance and splendor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: eclat
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Broader terms: elegance
noun
cheap or pretentious or vain display
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: gaudery
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Broader terms: display, show
History
The noun is derived from Middle English pomp, pompe, from Old French pompe, from Latin pompa (“pomp”), from Ancient Greek πομπή (pompḗ, “a sending, a solemn procession, pomp”), from πέμπω (pémpō, “to send”). The verb is derived from Middle English pompen, from pomp, pompe (see above).
From Middle English pompen. Possibly an alteration of pampen (English pamp), from Middle Low German pampen (“to pamper oneself, live luxuriously”), from Old Saxon *pampōn, from Proto-Germanic *pampōną (“to swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *bamb- (“round object”).
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