Gin·ger·bread n. A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. “Gingerbread that was full fine.”
Gingerbread tree Bot., 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.
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