gingerbread
noun
a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
gingerbready
-
a word derived from
gingerbread.
Example Sentences
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Simla, with its gingerbready shops, its dingy hotels and antiquated houses, is strangely Victorian.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Fuesses live in what they call "the ugliest house in the world," a drab, gingerbready place on Hidden Road in Andover.
From Time Magazine Archive
In time, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright ridiculed the gingerbready Palmer House as "an ugly old man whose wrinkles were all in the wrong place."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a curious chick from which the politician grew: a shy boy, with large round eyes in a large round head, born in 1889 in a gingerbready house in Cincinnati.
From Time Magazine Archive
Everything looked so grandly gingerbready that I hesitated about going in.
From Doesticks, What He Says by Q. K. Philander Doesticks
