GINGERBREAD

gingerbread. Gingerbread, n. a bread made of flour, ginger and treacle, a kind of sweet spicy bread

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Gin″ger‐bread′ (?), n. A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. “Gingerbread that was full fine.” Chaucer. Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; — so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm. — Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character.