Gingerbread
['dʒɪndʒəbred] or ['dʒɪndʒɚ'brɛd]
Definition
(n.) A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes.
Editor: William
Examples
- I had a very choice collection of ballads, and there was a new stock of gingerbread in the tin box. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Tragedies and cravats, poetry and pickles, garden seeds and long letters, music and gingerbread, rubbers, invitations, scoldings, and puppies. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Mr. Dick was very partial to gingerbread. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Beth's new 'ink bib' was capital, and Hannah's box of hard gingerbread will be a treasure. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Don't try too many messes, Jo, for you can't make anything but gingerbread and molasses candy fit to eat. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Which Mr Wegg, having replaced his tin box, accordingly did, as he rose to bait his gingerbread-trap for some other devoted infant. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The great altar of the cathedral and also three or four minor ones are a perfect mass of gilt gimcracks and gingerbread. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The only article in which Silas dealt, that was not hard, was gingerbread. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In the booths of the market fairs at Paris and its suburbs (for example, at the Gingerbread Fair, at the Féte of St. Cloud, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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