# Barmecide feast

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A meal with very little or no food
2. Something that promises much but delivers nothing; an illusion.

## Etymology
From a tale in the Arabian Nights in which a rich man serves a beggar an imaginary banquet; see Barmecide.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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