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gingerbread
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gin·ger·bread  (jnjr-brd)
n.
1.
a. A dark molasses cake flavored with ginger.
b. A soft molasses and ginger cookie cut in various shapes, sometimes elaborately decorated.
2.
a. Elaborate ornamentation.
b. Superfluous or tasteless embellishment, especially in architecture.

[Middle English gingebred, a stiff pudding, preserved ginger, alteration (influenced by bred, bread, bread) of Old French gingembrat, from Medieval Latin *gingibrtum, from gingiber, ginger; see ginger.]

ginger·bread adj.
ginger·bready adj.

gingerbread [ˈdʒɪndʒəˌbrɛd]
n
1. (Cookery) a moist brown cake, flavoured with ginger and treacle or syrup
2. (Cookery)
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
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.gingerbread - cake flavored with gingergingerbread - cake flavored with ginger            
cake - baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat
Translations
gingerbread [ˈdʒɪndʒəbred] Npan m de jengibre
gingerbread [ˈdʒɪndʒərbrɛd] npain m d'épices
ginger cake ncake m au gingembre
ginger group n (British)groupe m de pression
ginger-haired [ˌdʒɪndʒərˈhɛərd] adjroux*(rousse)
gingerbread [ˈdʒɪndʒəˌbrɛd] npan m pepato or di zenzero


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