Meaning of Vanity Fair | Babel Free

Definitions

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

derogatory

Examples

“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?”

“Such a complete Vanity Fair as the Palais Royal, is not, I imagine, to be found any where else”

“Nash, the son of a glass-merchant — Brummell, the hopeful of a small shopkeeper — became the intimates of princes, dukes, and fashionables; were petty kings of Vanity Fair, and were honoured by their subjects.”

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