Barmecide

English

Adjective

Barmecide (not comparable)

1. Of the nature of a Barmecide feast.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] 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.

2. (by extension) imaginary; illusory; sham.