Gingerbread
11gingerbread — gingerbready, adj. /jin jeuhr bred /, n. 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… …
12gingerbread — noun a) A type of cake whose main flavouring is ginger and that is typically cut into human shaped pieces called gingerbread men or built into house shaped cakes called gingerbread houses. b) A flamboyant Victorian era architectural style …
13gingerbread — gin|ger|bread [ˈdʒındʒəbred US dʒər ] n [U] [Date: 1200 1300; Origin: gingebras preserved ginger (13 14 centuries), from Old French gingembraz, from gimgibre ( GINGER); influenced by bread] 1.) a heavy sweet cake or a ↑biscuit with ginger in it… …
14gingerbread — noun 1 (U) a sweet cake or biscuit (1) with ginger in it 2 gingerbread man a piece of gingerbread in the shape of a person …
15gingerbread — noun Gingerbread is used before these nouns: ↑cookie …
16gingerbread — [[t]ʤɪ̱nʤə(r)bred[/t]] N UNCOUNT Gingerbread is a sweet biscuit or cookie that is flavoured with ginger. It is often made in the shape of a man or an animal …
17gingerbread — noun 1》 cake made with treacle or syrup and flavoured with ginger. 2》 informal fancy decoration on a building. Phrases take the gilt off the gingerbread Brit. cause something to lose its attractiveness or desirability. Origin ME, from OFr.… …
18gingerbread — gin•ger•bread [[t]ˈdʒɪn dʒərˌbrɛd[/t]] n. 1) coo a type of cake or fancifully shaped cookie flavored with ginger and molasses 2) archit. elaborate or superfluous architectural ornamentation 3) heavily ornamented: a house with gingerbread… …
19Gingerbread Economy — is a 2004, fiction novel written by Lee McGeorge. The story is set in an unnamed British town, ten years after a catastrophic global collapse of law and order. The story follows the principal governors of a small community as they rebuild their… …
20Gingerbread Man (disambiguation) — Gingerbread Man may refer to:*Gingerbread man, a type of cookie often shaped like a person * The Gingerbread Man , an English fairy tale * The Gingerbread Man (film), a 1998 film by Robert Altman *Gingerbread Man (Shrek), a character voiced by… …
