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A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes.

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  1. n. A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes.
  2. n. cake flavored with ginger
  3. A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. "Gingerbread that was full fine." Chaucer. 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.
  4. A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimesmade in fanciful shapes. "Gingerbread that was full fine." Chaucer.Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from theresemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm.-- Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration,of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character.
  5. n:100 n. cake flavored with ginger