01 n. A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes.
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A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes.
Phrases & compounds
Gingerbread tree —
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.