gingerbread

noun

gin·ger·bread | \ ˈjin-jər-ˌbred

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

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gingerbread adjective

gingerbreaded \ ˈjin-jər-ˌbre-dəd

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gingerbready \ ˈjin-jər-ˌbre-dē

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Examples of gingerbread in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Hap encounters his wife being physically intimate with March inside a massive gingerbread house at a Christmas festival. — Stacey Swann, Star Tribune, 14 May 2021 And there is often a gingerbread man missing a leg or snowman missing a corncob pipe that could stand to be let go. — Star Tribune, 25 Dec. 2020 Sheryl always hated that story because no matter how far the gingerbread man ran, he always got eaten in the end by a wily fox. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2020 This 4-piece holiday gift bag set has a little bit of everything for the holidays: two body cloud creams in warm cashmere and gingerbread man scents, and two bathroom sprays in the same scents. — Tanner Saunders, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2020 Among the playthings, your feline will find a plush gingerbread man plump with catnip and a jinglebell ball. — Christina Vercelletto, CNN Underscored, 10 Nov. 2020 Stamped on each cookie is one of five cheery designs including a gingerbread man surrounded by snowflakes. — PEOPLE.com, 22 Sep. 2020 Welcome scents like baked bread, honeysuckle and hot cocoa … morning dew, gingerbread and campfires … bacon, old books and autumn leaves. — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 25 Feb. 2021 Add a cool bottle of Vita Malt, a Jamaican soda that’s like a nonalcoholic cross between an English brown ale and gingerbread. — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Feb. 2021

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