Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling ginger, especially in color or taste.

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Examples

  • And be sure that close to little Georgiana, also under inspection by the same gingerous gentleman, sits Fledgeby.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • As he stopped dead, Mr Lammle, making that gingerous bush of his whiskers to look out of, offered him the word ‘Destiny.’

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • Mrs Lammle opens her nostrils and bites her under-lip; Mr Lammle takes his gingerous whiskers in his left hand, and, bringing them together, frowns furtively at his beloved, out of a thick gingerous bush.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • And be sure that close to little Georgiana, also under inspection by the same gingerous gentleman, sits Fledgeby.

    Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841

  • The Lammles were so fond of the dear Veneerings that they could not for some time detach themselves from those excellent friends; but at length, either a very open smile on Mr Lammle's part, or a very secret elevation of one of his gingerous eyebrows -- certainly the one or the other -- seemed to say to Mrs Lammle, 'Why don't you play?'

    Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841

  • Mrs Lammle opens her nostrils and bites her under-lip; Mr Lammle takes his gingerous whiskers in his left hand, and, bringing them together, frowns furtively at his beloved, out of a thick gingerous bush.

    Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841

  • As he stopped dead, Mr Lammle, making that gingerous bush of his whiskers to look out of, offered him the word 'Destiny.'

    Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841

  • The Lammles were so fond of the dear Veneerings that they could not for some time detach themselves from those excellent friends; but at length, either a very open smile on Mr Lammle’s part, or a very secret elevation of one of his gingerous eyebrows — certainly the one or the other — seemed to say to Mrs Lammle, ‘Why don’t you play?’

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

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