gingerbread

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The waffles and the gingerbread were all they had promised to be, and the supper passed off quietly, with the exception of a mishap of poor, awkward Andy, who tipped his plate of hot cakes and honey into his lap, and then in his sudden spring backward, threw a part of the plate's contents upon Ethelyn's shining silk.

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  1. noun A dark molasses cake flavored with ginger.
  2. noun A soft molasses and ginger cookie cut in various shapes, sometimes elaborately decorated.
  3. noun Elaborate ornamentation.
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  • There was a big puff of steam from the pot that smelled of herbs and magic and gingerbread, and I sneezed. —  1
  • I can make splendid gingerbread, and the rest we can get down at the bakery; I haven't touched my this month's money yet. —  In Blue Creek Cañon
  • As for the gingerbread, I shall not attempt a description. —  The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
  • There was of course the traditional gilt gingerbread, and the cheering but not inebriating ginger-beer, dear to the youthful palate, and not less loved by the tired pedestrian, when, mixed half and half with ale, it foams before him as shandy gaff_. —  The Gypsies
  • "What's wrong; anything Nothin' but my batch of gingerbread, and a quart of molasses'll save that. —  Fair Harbor
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  1. 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.

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  1. from Middle English ginger-bred, -breed; from ginger + bread.
 

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/ˈdʒɪndʒərbrɛd/
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