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panoply
PAN-uh-plee
noun
the display of fanfare; pageantry; an array of weapons
1881Aeschylus The Seven Against ThebesAnd seven high chieftains of war, with spear and with panoply bold, | Are set, by the law of the lot, to storm the seven gates of our hold!1943A. E. Van VogtThe Witch...there under the night sky with its shifting panoply of clouds.1997S. M. StirlingIsland in the Sea of TimeThe elaborate panoplies of the warriors burned like tinder, tall plumes of flame replacing the feathers of their headdresses.

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