GINGERBREAD

gingerbread

(noun) cake flavored with ginger

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

gingerbread (countable and uncountable, plural gingerbreads)

(food) A type of cake whose main flavoring is ginger.

(figurative, obsolete) Something ersatz; something showy but insubstantial.

(architecture) A flamboyant Victorian-era architectural style.

Source: Wiktionary

Gin"ger*bread`, n.

Definition: A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. "Gingerbread that was full fine." Chaucer. Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm.

– Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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