Gingerbread

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A dark molasses cake flavored with ginger.
  • n. A soft molasses and ginger cookie cut in various shapes, sometimes elaborately decorated.
  • n. Elaborate ornamentation.
  • n. Superfluous or tasteless embellishment, especially in architecture.
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  • n. A type of cake whose main flavouring is ginger and that is typically cut into human-shaped pieces called gingerbread men or built into house-shaped cakes called gingerbread houses.
  • n. A flamboyant Victorian-era architectural style.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A kind of sweet cake flavored with ginger, it is often made in fanciful shapes.
  • Having a fanciful shape, such as is often given to gingerbread; showy but unsubstantial or inartistic: (see gingerbread-work); as, gingerbread fittings on a yacht.
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  • n. cake flavored with ginger
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