Vanity fair

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Society, especially high society, as a place of self-interest and the superficial. derogatory

    "And how will your conscience answer one day for carrying so many bonny lasses to barter modesty for conceit and levity at the metropolitan Vanity Fair?"

Noun
  1. 1
    a vain and frivolous lifestyle especially in large cities wordnet

Etymology

From “Vanity Fair”, location of a debauched year-long festival in the 1678 novel The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan.

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