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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Gingerbread

/jĭn'-jẽrb-rĕdˌ/ · Gin·ger·bread · IPA /ˈd͡ʒɪn.d͡ʒɚˌbɹɛd/
01 n. A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes.
  1. 1.
    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.