“With pomp and circumstance”in other languages
With great ceremony.
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English quotes Shakespeare's Othello: “pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war”. French and Italian say en grande pompe, in pompa magna. Pompa was the Latin word for a solemn procession.
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