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gingerbread

[ jin-jer-bred ]

noun

  1. a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
  2. a rolled cookie similarly flavored, often cut in fanciful shapes, and sometimes frosted.
  3. elaborate, gaudy, or superfluous architectural ornamentation:

    a series of gables embellished with gingerbread.



adjective

  1. heavily, gaudily, and superfluously ornamented:

    a gingerbread style of architecture.

gingerbread

/ ˈɪԻəˌɛ /

noun

  1. a moist brown cake, flavoured with ginger and treacle or syrup
    1. a rolled biscuit, similarly flavoured, cut into various shapes and sometimes covered with icing
    2. ( as modifier )

      gingerbread man

    1. an elaborate but unsubstantial ornamentation
    2. ( as modifier )

      gingerbread style of architecture

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of gingerbread1

1250–1300; Middle English gingebreed (influenced by breed bread), variant of gingebrad, -brat ginger paste < Old French gingembras, -brat preserved ginger < Medieval Latin *gingi ( m ) ٳܳ a medicinal preparation (neuter past participle), derivative of Latin gingiber ginger
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It has the warmth of gingerbread and the blueberries impart freshness more than flavor.

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Police are the only people walking around the boarded-up mulled wine and gingerbread stalls.

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Some of the many fanciful gingerbread buildings that arose there were supposedly designed by the scandalously famous architect Stanford White and bore a resemblance to the Hotel del Coronado, which opened the same year.

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Instead, it was conjured into existence by artificial intelligence and featured a few otherworldly touches, like a snowy village melting into a Coke bottle here, or a gingerbread house animating itself there.

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The melancholy ad sees Gary continuing a tradition they shared, building a gingerbread house as his way to remember her.

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