[jin-jer-bred] 
| 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. |
| 4. | heavily, gaudily, and superfluously ornamented: a gingerbread style of architecture. |
| gin·ger·bread (jĭn'jər-brěd') n.
[Middle English gingebred, a stiff pudding, preserved ginger, alteration (influenced by bred, bread, bread) of Old French gingembrat, from Medieval Latin *gingibrātum, from gingiber, ginger; see ginger.] gin'ger·bread' adj., gin'ger·bread'y adj. |