| 单词 | gingerbread |
| 释义 | gingerbread —gingerbready, adj. /jin"jeuhr bred'/, n. 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. adj. 4. heavily, gaudily, and superfluously ornamented: a gingerbread style of architecture. [1250-1300; ME gingebreed (influenced by breed bread), var. of GINGEBRAD, -BRAT ginger paste < OF gingembras, -brat preserved ginger < ML *gingi(m)bratum a medicinal preparation (neut. ptp.), deriv. of L gingiber GINGER] |
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