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ALL meanings of vanity fair

van·i·ty fair
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  • noun vanity fair (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) a fair that goes on perpetually in the town of Vanity and symbolizes worldly ostentation and frivolity. 1
  • noun vanity fair (often lowercase) any place or group, as the world or fashionable society, characterized by or displaying a preoccupation with idle pleasures or ostentation. 1
  • noun vanity fair (italics) a novel (1847–48) by Thackeray. 1
  • noun vanity fair the social life of a community, esp of a great city, or the world in general, considered as symbolizing worldly frivolity 0
  • noun vanity fair in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, a fair always going on in the town of Vanity, symbolic of worldly folly, frivolity, and show 0
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