- a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
- a rolled cookie similarly flavored, often cut in fanciful shapes, and sometimes frosted.
- elaborate, gaudy, or superfluous architectural ornamentation: a series of gables embellished with gingerbread.
- heavily, gaudily, and superfluously ornamented: a gingerbread style of architecture.
- a moist brown cake, flavoured with ginger and treacle or syrup
- a rolled biscuit, similarly flavoured, cut into various shapes and sometimes covered with icing
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- an elaborate but unsubstantial ornamentation
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