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   Gin·ger·bread

   /ˈjinjərˌbred/

   

   noun

   • 1. cake made with molasses and flavored with ginger.
   • ▪ fancy decoration, especially on a building: "a high-gabled gingerbread house"

   Word Origin Middle English (originally denoting preserved ginger), from Old French gingembrat, from medieval Latin gingibratum, from gingiber (see ginger). The change in the ending in the 15th century was due to association with bread.

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