"pageant fever" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1835, “Bowery Theatre”, in The New-York Mirror, volume 13, page 310",
          "text": "All ranks appear to have imbibed the pageant-fever from the fair aristocrat, who arranges her raven locks after the Jewess fashion, so becomingly borne by Mrs. Flynn, down to the ragged urchin who patrols the street with a stick and a kite ...",
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          "ref": "1906 August, Fanny Johnson, “Folk-plays and Folk-education”, in The School World, volume VIII, number 92, London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., page 289",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1907 May 8, “The Oxford Pageant”, in The Bystander, volume XIV, number 179, London, page 280",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1948 September 7, “Miss America Due to Be Chosen”, in The New York Times, page 28",
          "text": "The “pageant fever” that strikes this resort each September ...",
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          "ref": "1992, Armando Riverol, Live from Atlantic City: The History of the Miss America Pageant Before, After and in Spite of Television, Popular Press, page iii",
          "text": "Whether we admit it or not, once a year (and only once), the country comes down with pageant fever.",
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        "A rise in the popular enthusiasm for pageants."
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          "ref": "1984, Newsweek, volume 104, numbers 10–18, page 60",
          "text": "Most contestants don't need much encouragement; once they begin to compete they catch pageant fever.",
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          "ref": "2010, T. R. Thomas, Cold Cases, Saddleback Educational Publishing, page 21",
          "text": "JonBenét seemed to have pageant fever, too. She was a seasoned pro by the time she was six.",
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          "ref": "2012, Kirsten Hubbard, Like Mandarin, Ember, page 151",
          "text": "By Thursday, Momma's pageant fever was worse than ever, though the tri-county pageant wasn't until early June.",
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        "An enthusiastic desire to participate in pageants."
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