# Vanity Fair

> English word · Proper noun

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

## Etymology
From “Vanity Fair”, location of a debauched year-long festival in the 1678 novel The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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