Both Uses
pomp
in
Moby Dick
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- And never having been anywhere in the world but in Africa, Nantucket, and the pagan harbors most frequented by whalemen; and having now led for many years the bold life of the fishery in the ships of owners uncommonly heedful of what manner of men they shipped; Daggoo retained all his barbaric virtues, and erect as a giraffe, moved about the decks in all the pomp of six feet five in his socks.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- and though among the holy pomps of the Romish faith, white is specially employed in the celebration of the Passion of our Lord;†
Chpt 40-42pomps = (archaic) pretentious or vain displays
Definitions:
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(1)
(pomp) ceremonial elegance and splendor
or:
(archaic) a pretentious or vain display - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)