gingerbread
noun
- a cake flavored with ginger and molasses
- a kind of cookie cut from a rolled-out dough flavored with ginger and molasses
- showy ornamentation, as gaudy or fancy carvings on furniture, gables, etc.
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(jĭnˈjər-brĕdˌ)
nouna. A dark molasses cake flavored with ginger.
b. A soft molasses and ginger cookie cut in various shapes, sometimes elaborately decorated.
a. Elaborate ornamentation.
b. Superfluous or tasteless embellishment, especially in architecture.
Related Forms:
- ginˈger·breadˌy adjective
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