Definition of "beauty pageant" []

• A competition in which participants compete for a determination that one is the most physically attractive. (noun)

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• "“We interrupt this beauty pageant to bring you a word from the Plastics Council.”"
• "The postwar popularity of the beauty pageant lasted for many decades, but the Miss Chinatown U.S.A. pageant had a certain added cachet in the American Chinatown community."
• "As the beauty pageant has historically done for participants, Miss Chinatown Las Vegas opened up professional opportunities."