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gin⋅ger⋅bread

  [jin-jer-bred]
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–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; ME gingebreed (influenced by breed bread), var. of gingebrad, -brat ginger paste < OF gingembras, -brat preserved ginger < ML *gingi(m)brātum a medicinal preparation (neut. ptp.), deriv. of L gingiber ginger

Related forms:
gin⋅ger⋅bread⋅y, adjective
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gin·ger·bread   (jĭn'jər-brěd')   
n.  

    1. A dark molasses cake flavored with ginger.

    2. A soft molasses and ginger cookie cut in various shapes, sometimes elaborately decorated.

    3. Elaborate ornamentation.

    4. Superfluous or tasteless embellishment, especially in architecture.

    1. Elaborate ornamentation.

    2. Superfluous or tasteless embellishment, especially in architecture.


[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.
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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