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.]
Barmecidal
Dictionary:
Bar·me·cid·al (bär'mĭ-sīd'l)  also Bar·me·cide
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adj.
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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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