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Barmecide
[ bahr-muh-sahyd ]
noun
- a member of a noble Persian family of Baghdad who, according to a tale in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, gave a beggar a pretended feast with empty dishes.
adjective
Barmecide
/ ˈbɑːmɪˌsaɪd /
adjective
- lavish or plentiful in imagination only; illusory; sham
a Barmecide feast
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Barmecide1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Barmecide1
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Example Sentences
A sort of Barmecide feast, but I assure you it is very nice with bread or crackers and butter.
Were the wit and poesy and knowledge the successive desserts, and bright gossip the sparkle of the Barmecide wine?
For a hungry guest to take this tantalization in good part, was the sure way to win the esteem of the noble Barmecide.
But if the "call" was a Barmecide call, there was another act open to the congregation which was not so.
They fed like school-boys home for Thanksgiving, in haste lest the present banquet, too good to be true, prove Barmecide.
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