A place characterized by frivolity, excessive display of how fancy this place is, and pretentious.
It comes from the the book
Pilgrim's Progress, where there was a fair in a town called
Vanity. Later on, there was a book called
Vanity Fair, and that's when it became a common term.
I got invited to a party at my friend
Martha's house. You know, the rich girl who's related to the queen? Anyway, the party was a
vanity fair.
What movie should we see? I'm thinking of seeing
Vanity Fair. It's based on a novel I had to
read in high school.