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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.
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
gingiber ginger
OTHER WORDS FROM gingerbread gin·ger·bread·y, adjective Words nearby gingerbread gingal, ginge, ginger, ginger ale, ginger beer, gingerbread , gingerbread palm, gingerbread plum, gingerbread tree, ginger family, ginger group
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Example sentences from the Web for gingerbread I don't think I was expecting a gingerbread house but I expected something a little more fun.
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Merton said that on Friday, Olivia had been excited to get home from school and make a gingerbread house.
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Chocolate melts, cotton candy disintegrates, graham-cracker walls separate, and gingerbread roofs eventually cave in.
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You've seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement?
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NE day, the cook went into the kitchen to make some gingerbread .
The Little Gingerbread Man | G. H. P.
Why, she stuck her tongue out at me and call me gingerbread man.
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Really, Mr. Gingerbread Man, I think you are very good eating for a hungry fox.
Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades | Florence Holbrook
"Still, you'd better try them," persisted the gingerbread man.
John Dough and the Cherub | L. Frank Baum
One highly important ceremony, to the minds of the children, was yet to come,—the presentation of the gingerbread .
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British Dictionary definitions for gingerbread 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 Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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