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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
vanitas /ˈvanɪtɑːs/

▶noun a still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability.

– origin L., lit. ‘vanity’.

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