"Barmecide" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Of the nature of a Barmecide feast."
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        "imaginary; illusory; sham."
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        "(by extension) imaginary; illusory; sham."
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  "word": "Barmecide"
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