Emily Dickinson Lexicon

POMP, n. [L. pompa; Fr. pompe; Arm. pomp; pompadi, to boast; It. and Sp. pompa; Sw. pomp; D. pomp, a pump, and pompoen, a gourd, a pumpkin; G. pomp, show, and pumpe, a pump. These words appear to be all of one family, coinciding with L. bombus, Sp. bomba, Eng. bomb, bombast. The radical sense is to swell or dilate; Gr. πομπη, πομπεια, πομπευω.]

1. A procession distinguished by ostentation of grandeur and splendor; as, the pomp of a Roman triumph.
2. Show of magnificence; parade; splendor. Hearts formed for love, but doom'd in vain to glow / In prison'd pomp, and weep in splendid woe. – D. Humphreys.