VanityFair

VanityFair
Van·i·ty Fair also van·i·ty fair (vănʹĭ-tē) n.
A place or scene of ostentation or empty, idle amusement and frivolity.
  [From Vanity Fair, the fair in Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan.]

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