gingerbread
[ jin-jer-bred ]
/ ˈdʒɪn dʒərˌbrɛd /
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.
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Origin of gingerbread
1250–1300; Middle English gingebreed (influenced by breed bread), variant of gingebrad, -brat ginger paste <Old French gingembras, -brat preserved ginger <Medieval Latin *gingi(m)brātum a medicinal preparation (neuter past participle), derivative of Latin gingiberginger
OTHER WORDS FROM gingerbread
gin·ger·bread·y, adjectiveWords nearby gingerbread
gingal, ginge, ginger, ginger ale, ginger beer, gingerbread, gingerbread palm, gingerbread plum, gingerbread tree, ginger family, ginger group
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gingerbread
/ (ˈdʒɪndʒəˌbrɛd) /
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
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