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noun
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a member of a noble Persian family of Baghdad who, according to a tale in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, gave a beggar a pretended feast with empty dishes.
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Barmecide
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Origin:
< Persian Barmekī family name, literally, offspring of Barmek, with -ide -id1 for Persian -ī < Arabic
< Persian Barmekī family name, literally, offspring of Barmek, with -ide -id1 for Persian -ī < Arabic
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