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gingerbread
[jin-jer-bred]
noun
a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
a rolled cookie similarly flavored, often cut in fanciful shapes, and sometimes frosted.
elaborate, gaudy, or superfluous architectural ornamentation.
a series of gables embellished with gingerbread.
adjective
heavily, gaudily, and superfluously ornamented.
a gingerbread style of architecture.
gingerbread
/ ˈɪԻəˌɛ /
noun
a moist brown cake, flavoured with ginger and treacle or syrup
a rolled biscuit, similarly flavoured, cut into various shapes and sometimes covered with icing
( as modifier )
gingerbread man
an elaborate but unsubstantial ornamentation
( as modifier )
gingerbread style of architecture
Other Word Forms
- gingerbready adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of gingerbread1
Example Sentences
For his part, Alastair, who runs a gingerbread business, describes the donation as his "legacy".
It has the warmth of gingerbread and the blueberries impart freshness more than flavor.
Police are the only people walking around the boarded-up mulled wine and gingerbread stalls.
Some of the many fanciful gingerbread buildings that arose there were supposedly designed by the scandalously famous architect Stanford White and bore a resemblance to the Hotel del Coronado, which opened the same year.
Instead, it was conjured into existence by artificial intelligence and featured a few otherworldly touches, like a snowy village melting into a Coke bottle here, or a gingerbread house animating itself there.
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