Definitions for Barmecide

Barmecide Bar·me·cide

Spelling: [bahr-muh-sahyd]
IPA: /ˈbɑr məˌsaɪd/

Barmecide is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 494 anagrams from letters in Barmecide (abcdeeimr).

Definitions for Barmecide

noun

  1. 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

  1. Barmecidal.

Origin of Barmecide

Persian Barmekī family name, literally, offspring of Barmek, with -ide -id1 for Persian -ī Arabic

Examples for Barmecide

My dear Barmecide friend, isn't it pleasant to be in such fine company?

A sort of Barmecide feast, but I assure you it is very nice with bread or crackers and butter.

Is it possible the Regenerator is, after all, more tantalizing than the Barmecide?

Barmecide, br′me-sīd, n. one who offers an imaginary or pretended banquet or other benefit.

It was a Barmecide feast of discourse, from which a greater satisfaction resulted than from an actual banquet.

But one of them is always nailed; there is no escaping the Barmecide.

But a banquet in which the plates only are good is but a Barmecide feast, after all.

Accustomed to these regular Barmecide suggestions, Barker made no direct reply.

I fancy it will be a Barmecide feast, such as little Pope hits off in an unpublished lampoon upon certain kinsfolk of mine.

As they sat down at their Barmecide feast, how wretched the assemblage of unrivalled dainties seemed!

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