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Bible Encyclopedias
Barmacide Feast
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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An imaginary feast, so called from a story in the "Arabian Nights" of a hungry beggar invited by a Barmacide prince to a banquet, which proved a long succession of merely empty dishes, and which he enjoyed with such seeming gusto and such good-humour as to earn for himself a sumptuous real one.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Barmacide Feast'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/b/barmacide-feast.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Barmacide Feast'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/b/barmacide-feast.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
