pageant fever

Definitions

1. 1

   A rise in the popular enthusiasm for pageants.

   • One can fancy, if this “Pageant fever” continues, that Bury St. Edmunds will be boasting that she has gathered her tens of thousands where Warwick gathered her thousands, and so on.
   • Last year, it may be remembered, my allusions, such as they were, to the Pageant fever that obsessed the country (Pageantitis) were couched in somewhat supercilious vain.
2. 2

   An enthusiastic desire to participate in pageants.

   • Most contestants don't need much encouragement; once they begin to compete they catch pageant fever.
   • JonBenét seemed to have pageant fever, too. She was a seasoned pro by the time she was six.
   • By Thursday, Momma's pageant fever was worse than ever, though the tri-county pageant wasn't until early June.

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