Meaning & use
gingerbread
A firm, spiced cake or cookie flavored with ginger and often molasses or honey.
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We decorated gingerbread cookies with icing and candy buttons before the holiday party.
The children built a small house out of gingerbread and gumdrops.
A note on using this word
The phrase 'gingerbread house' also describes ornate, elaborately decorated architecture, especially Victorian-style buildings.
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