pageant fever noun2 •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. — 1906 •An enthusiastic desire to participate in pageants.Most contestants don't need much encouragement; once they begin to compete they catch pageant fever. — 1984
