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English
Adjective
Barmecide (not comparable)
- Of the nature of a Barmecide feast.
1886 October – 1887 January, H 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.