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gingerbread

[ jin-jer-bred ]

noun

  1. a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
  2. a rolled cookie similarly flavored, often cut in fanciful shapes, and sometimes frosted.
  3. elaborate, gaudy, or superfluous architectural ornamentation:

    a series of gables embellished with gingerbread.



adjective

  1. heavily, gaudily, and superfluously ornamented:

    a gingerbread style of architecture.

gingerbread

/ ˈdʒɪndʒəˌbrɛd /

noun

  1. a moist brown cake, flavoured with ginger and treacle or syrup
    1. a rolled biscuit, similarly flavoured, cut into various shapes and sometimes covered with icing
    2. ( as modifier )

      gingerbread man

    1. an elaborate but unsubstantial ornamentation
    2. ( as modifier )

      gingerbread style of architecture



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  • ginger·bready adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of gingerbread1

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 gingiber ginger

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Example Sentences

She remembers how they were supposed to make gingerbread houses that day.

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The next day, we encountered the most difficult passage of the ascent, a 750-foot barrier of broken rock, as layered and fragile as gingerbread.

To get a sense of how this would work practically, we used a relatively mistake-tolerant gingerbread muffin recipe from Southern Living.

All I need is for a childhood friend played by Lacey Chabert to force me to make gingerbread houses while she drains me of my cynicism.

The murderer’s ashes got stirred into a batch of gingerbread mix by his mother, a witch.

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I don't think I was expecting a gingerbread house but I expected something a little more fun.

We were supposed to make gingerbread houses today at 2:30 in his class.

Merton said that on Friday, Olivia had been excited to get home from school and make a gingerbread house.

The first family decorates for the holidays with a 300-pound gingerbread White House and ‘Boflakes.’

Chocolate melts, cotton candy disintegrates, graham-cracker walls separate, and gingerbread roofs eventually cave in.

On the way I passed a gingerbread shop, and the fixed idea took hold of me that you must like gingerbread.

There must be either a good deal of gilded gingerbread or a great let of the genuine article, at our places of worship.

They then went into a room where little pages handed them sweetmeats and gingerbread-nuts.

Nay he made the gingerbread mother a kind of prime-minister, said the angry public, justly scandalized at this of the "Dovekin."

Nettie was amazed and dismayed to find how much even soft gingerbread cost, when every pan of it had to be counted in money.

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