English Explanatory Dictionary

Vanity Fair

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Vanity Fair

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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