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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
/ ˈɑːɪˌɪ /
adjective
- lavish or plentiful in imagination only; illusory; sham
a Barmecide feast
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Barmecide1
< Persian ī family name, literally, offspring of Barmek, with -ide -id 1 for Persian -ī < Arabic
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Barmecide1
C18: from the name of a prince in The Arabian Nights who served empty plates to beggars, alleging that they held sumptuous food
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The latter piece, titled “The Barmecide Feast,” is well built — down to the corny Late Empire porcelains employed as backdrop on the luminous white set.
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But one of them is always nailed; there is no escaping the Barmecide.
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Everything tastes so desiccated and deodorized, the mere shadow of really substantial viands, a veritable feast of Barmecide.
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The appetite of the reader should not be tempted by dishes, which become a mere Barmecide's feast, in this manner.
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Is it possible the Regenerator is, after all, more tantalizing than the Barmecide?
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