pageanteer

noun3

1. •
   One who performs a role in a pageant.

   • Some well-to-do pageanteers evidently traveled around the country to appear in one pageant after another. — 2010
2. •
   A contestant in a beauty contest.

   • For some women, this is their first pageant experience, while others are 'career' pageanteers, who started as young as four. — 2002
3. •
   One who produces a pageant.

   • This show is being put on by Edward Hungerford, the master pageanteer, with a cast of some 250 people. — 1937