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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

See Vanity Fair in American Heritage Dictionary 4

also van·i·ty fair

noun

A place or scene of ostentation or empty, idle amusement and frivolity.

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Origin: From Vanity Fair, the fair in Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

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