Barmecidal
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Bar·me·cid·al
(bär'mĭ-sīd'l) 
also Bar·me·cide (bär'mĭ-sīd')
adj.
Plentiful or abundant in appearance only; illusory: a Barmecidal feast.
also Bar·me·cide (bär'mĭ-sīd')adj.
Plentiful or abundant in appearance only; illusory: a Barmecidal feast.
[After Barmecide, a nobleman in The Arabian Nights, who served an imaginary feast to a beggar.]
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Barmecidal
providing only the illusion of abundance
[from Barmecide, a wealthy Persian, who invited a beggar to a feast of imaginary food in a tale of The Arabian Nights' Entertainments]
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