GINGERBREADS

Noun

gingerbreads

plural of gingerbread

Source: Wiktionary


GINGERBREAD

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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