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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Van′ity Fair′, - Literature(in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) a fair that goes on perpetually in the town of Vanity and symbolizes worldly ostentation and frivolity.
- (often l.c.) any place or group, as the world or fashionable society, characterized by or displaying a preoccupation with idle pleasures or ostentation.
- Literature(italics) a novel (1847–48) by Thackeray.
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