Beauty pageant
noun
beauty contest
examples
my sister and i played “beauty pageant” on the post office steps on sundays.
word origin
1911
contemporary examples
yeager, herself a statuesque blond model and 30-time beauty pageant winner, was just as comfortable in front of the camera.
the queen of the playboy centerfolds nina strochlic may 30, 2014
one evening in 1999, her transgender club hosted a beauty pageant.
illegal b-tt injections are on the rise and women are at risk lizzie crocker, caitlin d-ckson october 12, 2012
she is genuinely gorgeous, with that thick, cascading soap opera hair, generous mouth, and beauty pageant legs.
the heat quotient tina brown october 27, 2008
historical examples
the beauty pageant was held there the first week we were at the hotel.
the biography of a rabbit roy benson
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