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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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