Vanity Fairとは

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Vanity Fair

1. (pejorative) Society, especially high society, as a place of self-interest and the superficial.
   • 1827, Walter Scott, Chronicles of the Canongate: In Two Volumes, page 37:

     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?

   • 1828, William Buell Sprague, Letters from Europe, in 1828: first published in the New York observer, page 49:

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

   • 1860, Katherine Thomson, John Cockburn Thomson, The wits and beaux of society, by Grace and Philip Wharton, page 97

     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.