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Barmecide feasts

Barmecide feasts is the plural of Barmecide feast.

Meaning of Barmecide feast

Noun

Barmecide feast (plural Barmecide feasts)

  1. A meal with very little or no food
    • [H]e decided that his loved one was on the point of starvation. No human being, he held, could exist on such Barmecide feasts.1915, P.G. Wodehouse, chapter 8, in Something Fresh, London: Hutchinson, page 122
  2. Something that promises much but delivers nothing; an illusion.

Questions about Barmecide feasts

What is Barmecide feasts the plural of?
Barmecide feasts is the plural of Barmecide feast.

Words near Barmecide feasts in the dictionary

  1. barmcloth
  2. barmcloths
  3. barmecidal
  4. Barmecide
  5. Barmecide feast
  6. Barmecide feasts
  7. barmed
  8. Barmedman
  9. barmen
  10. Barmer
  11. Barmera

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