Gingerbread

n.

1.

A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. Gingerbread tree (Bot.) 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.

Noun

1.

gingerbread - cake flavored with ginger

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