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vanity fair

A place characterized by frivolity, excessive display of how fancy this place is, and pretentious.It comes from the the book Pilgrim's Progress, where there was a fair in a town called Vanity. Later on, there was a book called Vanity Fair, and that's when it became a common term.

vanity fair

by Chrisman on Sep 16, 2007 07:53:06

Vanity Fair was a novel written by William Thackeray. First published as a series in January 1847 and published as a novel the following year. It was a novel about early-19th Century culture in England during the Napoleonic Wars. It's sub-title was A Novel without a Hero.

Example:
-What are you reading?
-I'm reading Thackeray's Vanity Fair

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