POMP
WordNet
noun
(1) Ceremonial elegance and splendor
"Entered with much eclat in a coach drawn by eight white horses"
(2) Cheap or pretentious or vain display
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From < < < < .
Quotations
- 1698. "A person of quality" [Pierre Nicole]. Moral Essayes, Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties. Vol I, p95.
- "'Tis a gross visible errour, which Tertullian teaches in his Book of Idolatry cap. 18. That all the marks of Dignity and Power, and all the ornaments annexed to Office, are forbid Christians, and that Jesus Christ hath plac'd all these things amongst the pomps of the Devil, since he himself appeared in a condition so far from all pomp and splendour."
Etymology
Probably a loan word from the , from the , from the from .