Barmecide

English

Adjective

Barmecide (not comparable)

  1. Of the nature of a Barmecide feast.
    • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎:
      It was a curious sort of a feast, I reflected, in appearance indeed, an entertainment of the Barmecide stamp, for there was absolutely nothing to eat.
  2. (by extension) imaginary; illusory; sham.
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