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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
Barmecidal
 
SYLLABICATION:Bar·me·cid·al
PRONUNCIATION:  bärm-sdl
VARIANT FORMS: also Bar·me·cide (bärm-sd)
ADJECTIVE: Plentiful or abundant in appearance only; illusory: a Barmecidal feast.
ETYMOLOGY:After Barmecide, a nobleman in The Arabian Nights, who served an imaginary feast to a beggar.
 
 
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