Definition of gingerbread
1 : a cake whose ingredients include molasses and ginger
2 [from the fancy shapes and gilding formerly often applied to gingerbread] : lavish or superfluous ornament especially in architecture
gingerbread
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Her gingerbread houses often resembled ski chalets or mansions with fine detail, and they had been displayed at foreign embassies.
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Start in Oak Bluffs, a port town decorated with colorful, Victorian gingerbread homes.
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Here, modernist art galleries like the Pompidou and Zaha Hadi's MAXXI Museum are recreated using gingerbread.
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The menu includes foie gras and bacon jam served with a Belgium waffle; filet mignon served with foie gras ravioli in a black truffle Madeira sauce; and a warm gingerbread with foie gras terrine, caramelized pears and port reduction.
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In one tiny section, a frog is crossing a river with a scorpion on its back, while a fox is crossing in the other direction with a gingerbread man on its nose.
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The outstanding pastry chef award went to Tunisia native Ghaya Oliveira of Daniel restaurant in New York, where her dessert menu features ingredients like cardamom poached pear, blackberry-orange blossom sorbet and Mexican vanilla bean gingerbread.
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First Known Use of gingerbread
15th century
GINGERBREAD Defined for English Language Learners
gingerbread
playDefinition of gingerbread for English Language Learners
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: a cake or cookie made with molasses and ginger
GINGERBREAD Defined for Kids
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: a dark cake flavored with ginger and molasses
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