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固有名詞

Vanity Fair

1. (derogatory) Society, especially high society, as a place of self-interest and the superficial.
   • 1827, [Walter Scott], Chronicles of the Canongate; […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, OCLC 230674472, page 46:

     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