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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024gin•ger•bread /ˈdʒɪndʒɚˌbrɛd/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- Fooda cake or cookie flavored with ginger and molasses.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024gin•ger•bread (jin′jər bred′),USA pronunciation n. - Fooda type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
- Fooda 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.
adj. - 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
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