Barmecide

English

Adjective

Barmecide (not comparable)

Of the nature of a Barmecide feast.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
  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.
(by extension) imaginary; illusory; sham.

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