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What is another word for Barmecide?

Pronunciation: [bˈɑːmɪsˌa͡ɪd] (IPA)

Barmecide is a rare word that means illusory or imaginary enjoyment. It originated from a character in The Arabian Nights who hosted a dinner party that had no actual food. Some synonyms that can be used instead of Barmecide include delusive, deceptive, unreal, and fictitious. These words are all used to describe something that doesn't really exist or doesn't live up to expectations. Other synonyms that can be used in the same context include fraudulent, sham, phony, and counterfeit. These words all describe something that is misleading or false. In general, synonyms for Barmecide are words that describe things that are not what they seem to be, or do not live up to expectations.
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Then came forward Ja'afar the Barmecide and kissing the ground, said, "Be the wide world of Allah the treading of thy feet and may Paradise be thy dwelling-place and the Fire the home of thy foes!
"Supplemental Nights, Volume 1"
Richard F. Burton
I don't think I should ever have been deluded, even if my curiosity had not led me to question the steward; but never, by word or look, did I impugn the reality of that Barmecide bath.
"Border and Bastille"
George A. Lawrence
While we listened to the noise of her furious gossip, the Doctor related her faithful services, and the terrible anxiety she evinced when the guns first announced the arrival of another white man in Ujiji; how she had been flying about in a state cf the utmost excitement, from the kitchen into his presence, and out again into the square, asking all sorts of questions; how she was in despair at the scantiness of the general larder and treasury of the strange household; how she was anxious to make up for their poverty by a grand appearance- to make up a sort of Barmecide feast to welcome the white man.
"How I Found Livingstone"
Sir Henry M. Stanley

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