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dʒərˌbrɛd noun
1.
a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
2.
a rolled cookie similarly flavored, often cut in fanciful shapes, and sometimes frosted.
3.
elaborate, gaudy, or superfluous architectural ornamentation: a series of gables embellished with gingerbread.
adjective
4.
heavily, gaudily, and superfluously ornamented: a gingerbread style of architecture.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English gingebreed (influenced by breed bread), variant of gingebrad, -brat ginger paste < Old French gingembras, -brat preserved ginger < Medieval Latin *gingi(m)brātum a medicinal preparation (neuter past participle), derivative of Latin gingiber ginger
1250–1300; Middle English gingebreed (influenced by breed bread), variant of gingebrad, -brat ginger paste < Old French gingembras, -brat preserved ginger < Medieval Latin *gingi(m)brātum a medicinal preparation (neuter past participle), derivative of Latin gingiber ginger
Related forms
gin·ger·bread·y, adjective
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| —n | |
| 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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Word Origin & History
gingerbread
1299, gingerbrar, from O.Fr. ginginbrat "preserved ginger," from M.L. gingimbratus "gingered," from gingiber (see ginger). The ending changed by folk etymology to -brede "bread," a formation attested by 1352. Originally "preserved ginger," the meaning "a kind of spiced cake"
is from 15c. Sense of "fussy decoration on a house" is first recorded 1757, originally gingerbread-work (1748), a sailors' term for carved decoration on a ship.
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Example sentences
Among other features, the castle is turned into gift-wrapped presents, candy canes and a gingerbread house.
She spent hours with my brothers and me, making gingerbread houses or sledding or cutting out paper snowflakes.
And you can see how magnificent the gingerbread house is this year.
The laid-back island atmosphere mixes with island architecture such as gingerbread mansions and conch houses with tin roofs.
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