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pomp and circumstance

   Also found in: Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.06 sec.
pomp and circumstance
formal ceremony. The royal visit was accompanied by all the usual pomp and circumstance.
See also: circumstance

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As he drew near, he slackened speed, took the middle of the street, leaned far over to star- board and rounded to ponderously and with laborious pomp and circumstance -- for he was personating the Big Missouri, and considered himself to be drawing nine feet of water.
He was a tall, good-looking man, and somewhat given to pomp and circumstance, which made him an object of note in the eyes of the wondering savages.
I was in touch with great souls who exalted flesh and spirit over dollars and cents, and to whom the thin wail of the starved slum child meant more than all the pomp and circumstance of commercial expansion and world empire.
 
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