"pageantitis" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1907 July 31, “2nd Battalion Notes”, in St. George's Gazette, volume XXV, number 295, London, page 107:",
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          "ref": "1908 May 27, “The Kaiser Catches Pageantitis”, in The Bystander, volume XVIII, number 234, London, page 439:",
          "text": "The Kaiser has condescended to catch from us an attack of pageantitis, and it broke out in Alsace-Lorraine the other day, when his Imperial Majesty inaugurated, with mediæval pomp and circumstance, the restored Hohkönigsberg, near Schlettstadt, in Lower Alsace.",
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          "ref": "1908 September 26, “Beauty Shows”, in The North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume LXXXVIII, number 2146, Shanghai, page 770:",
          "text": "Pageantitis has reverted to an old form at the seaside watering places. Beauty shows have become quite a common attraction ....",
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          "ref": "2007, Jane Tesh, A Hard Bargain: A Madeleine Maclin Mystery, Poisoned Pen Press, →ISBN, page 103:",
          "text": "\"Madeline, can't you do something about the proliferation of pageants in these parts? Everywhere I look, a queen is springing up. Those wretched friends of yours! They must be stopped. What do you call them? Pageantitis? Pageantniks? Idiots, I say idiots!\"",
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          "text": "In 1907 in Oxford a serious outbreak of an ‘affliction of the eye and mind known in professional circles as Pageantitis’ was vividly depicted in a satirical postcard.",
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          "text": "\"Madeline, can't you do something about the proliferation of pageants in these parts? Everywhere I look, a queen is springing up. Those wretched friends of yours! They must be stopped. What do you call them? Pageantitis? Pageantniks? Idiots, I say idiots!\"",
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