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Gingerbread

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Noun

1. gingerbread

cake flavored with ginger

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Gingerbread

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noun
1. 
a moist brown cake, flavoured with ginger and treacle or syrup
2. 
a. 
a rolled biscuit, similarly flavoured, cut into various shapes and sometimes covered with icing
b. 
(as modifier)
gingerbread man
3. 
a. 
an elaborate but unsubstantial ornamentation
b. 
(as modifier)
gingerbread style of architecture

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Gingerbread

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noun
1. 
a. 
a cake flavored with ginger and molasses
b. 
a kind of cookie cut from a rolled-out dough flavored with ginger and molasses
2. 
showy ornamentation, as gaudy or fancy carvings on furniture, gables, etc.
adjective
3. 
cheap and showy; gaudy
: also ˈgingerˌbready

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Gingerbread

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n.
1.
a. A dark molasses cake flavored with ginger.
b. A molasses and ginger cookie cut in various shapes, sometimes elaborately decorated.
2.
a. Elaborate architectural ornamentation, as on the trim of gables and porches on a Victorian house.
b. Superfluous or tasteless embellishment.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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