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| gin·ger·bread [ jínjər brèd ] |
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1. ginger-flavored cake: a moist dark cake made with molasses and flavored with ginger
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2. ginger-flavored cookie: a ginger-flavored cookie, often cut into the stylized shape of a person, animal, or Christmas tree
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3. architecture elaborate decoration: showy and elaborate decoration, especially on the outside of a building
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often used before a noun
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 a Victorian gingerbread cottage
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| [13th century. By folk etymology (by association with bread) < Old French gingembrat "preserved ginger" < medieval Latin gingiber "ginger"] |
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