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单词 gingerbread
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
gin•ger•bread /ˈdʒɪndʒɚˌbrɛd/USA pronunciation   n. [uncountable]
  1. Fooda cake or cookie flavored with ginger and molasses.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
gin•ger•bread  (jin′jər bred′),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Fooda type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
  2. Fooda 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.

adj. 
  1. heavily, gaudily, and superfluously ornamented:a gingerbread style of architecture.
  • Medieval Latin *gingi(m)brātum a medicinal preparation (neuter past participle), derivative of Latin gingiber ginger
  • Old French gingembras, -brat preserved ginger
  • Middle English gingebreed (influenced by breed bread), variant of gingebrad, -brat ginger paste 1250–1300
gin′ger•bread′y, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
gingerbread /ˈdʒɪndʒəˌbrɛd/ n
  1. a moist brown cake, flavoured with ginger and treacle or syrup
  2. a rolled biscuit, similarly flavoured, cut into various shapes and sometimes covered with icing
  3. (as modifier): gingerbread man
  4. an elaborate but unsubstantial ornamentation
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