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pageantitis

pageantitis noun: an enthusiastic rise in the popularity of pageants.

Noun

pageantitis (uncountable)

  1. An enthusiastic rise in the popularity of pageants.
    • Aldershot has, in common with other places, had its little spasmodic attack of pageantitis. On the 9th and 10th inst., a grand military pageant and tattoo took place in the grounds of Government House.1907 July 31, “2nd Battalion Notes”, in St. George's Gazette, volume XXV, number 295, London, page 107
    • 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.1908 May 27, “The Kaiser Catches Pageantitis”, in The Bystander, volume XVIII, number 234, London, page 439

Examples of pageantitis in a sentence

  • Pageantitis has reverted to an old form at the seaside watering places.1908 September 26, “Beauty Shows”, in The North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume LXXXVIII, number 2146, Shanghai...
  • 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.2007 June 26, Deborah Sugg Ryan, “'Pageantitis': Frank Lascelles' 1907 Oxford Historical Pageant, Visual Spectacle and Popular Memory”, in...

Origin of pageantitis

From pageant + -itis.

Questions about pageantitis

What does pageantitis mean?
Pageantitis means an enthusiastic rise in the popularity of pageants.
How do you use pageantitis in a sentence?
Pageantitis has reverted to an old form at the seaside watering places.
What part of speech is pageantitis?
Pageantitis is a noun.

Words near pageantitis in the dictionary

  1. pageanteers
  2. pageanter
  3. pageanters
  4. pageantic
  5. pageanting
  6. pageantitis
  7. pageantlike
  8. pageantries
  9. pageantry
  10. pageants
  11. pageaunt

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