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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A dark molasses cake flavored with ginger.
  2. n. A soft molasses and ginger cookie cut in various shapes, sometimes elaborately decorated.
  3. n. Elaborate ornamentation.
  4. n. Superfluous or tasteless embellishment, especially in architecture.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A kind of sweet cake flavored with ginger, it is often made in fanciful shapes. The name was also formerly given to a kind of white bread containing nuts, spices, and rose-water.
  2. Having a fanciful shape, such as is often given to gingerbread; showy but unsubstantial or inartistic: (see gingerbread-work); as, gingerbread fittings on a yacht.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A type of cake whose main flavouring is ginger and that is typically cut into human-shaped pieces called gingerbread men or built into house-shaped cakes called gingerbread houses.
  2. n. architecture A flamboyant Victorian-era architectural style.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. cake flavored with ginger

Etymologies

  1. From Old French gingembras, gingimbrat, preserved ginger, from medieval Latin *gingi(m)br?t-um, (ginger that perhaps had a pharmaceutical use for some medicinal preparation), from medieval Latin gingiber, ginger. The third syllable was early confounded with bread, and the insertion of an r in the second syllable completed the semblance of a compound word. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English gingebred, a stiff pudding, preserved ginger, alteration (influenced by bred, bread, bread) of Old French gingembrat, from Medieval Latin *gingibrātum, from gingiber, ginger; see ginger. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  2. cracker
  3. chocolate
  4. bun
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  1. gingerbread
  2. doom palm
  3. gingerbread tree
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  2. pepper-cake
  3. pepper-gingerbread
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  2. gingerbread-plum
  3. ginger-work
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  2. hard sauce
  3. parkin
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  2. card
  3. gingerbread-tree
  1. plum
  2. spicenut
  3. snap
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  • reesetee *tosses a gingerbread fuflun at hernesheir* Dec 16, 2010

  • hernesheir Hot gingerbread with whipped cream would taste good about now.
    Dec 14, 2010

  • mollusque They flanked opposite ends of the house and were probably architectural absurdities, redeemed in a measure indeed by not being wholly disengaged nor of a height too pretentious, dating, in their gingerbread antiquity, from a romantic revival that was already a respectable past.
    --Henry James, 1898, The Turn of the Screw Nov 19, 2009

  • treeseed Also heavily, gaudily, and superfluously ornamented

    Commonly used in reference to late 19th century Victorian architecture
    Feb 17, 2008

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