Barmecide
English
Adjective
Barmecide (not comparable)
- 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.
- (by extension) imaginary; illusory; sham.