Gingerbread

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gingerbread \Gin"ger*bread`\, n.
     A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and
     sometimes made in fanciful shapes. "Gingerbread that was full
     fine." --Chaucer.
     [1913 Webster]
  


     {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.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gingerbread
       n : cake flavored with ginger

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  74 Moby Thesaurus words for "gingerbread":
     Boston cream pie, angel cake, angel food cake, baked Alaska,
     bedizenment, bravery, cake, cheesecake, chiffon, chocolate cake,
     clinquant, coffee cake, cupcake, duplication,
     duplication of effort, embellishment, expletive, extravagance, fat,
     featherbedding, festoons, filling, finery, folderol, foofaraw,
     frill, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows,
     frippery, froufrou, fruitcake, fuss, gaiety, gaudery, genoise,
     gilding, gilt, honey cake, jelly roll, jumble, layer cake, luxury,
     marble cake, needlessness, ornamentation, overadornment, overlap,
     padding, paste, payroll padding, pinchbeck, pleonasm, pound cake,
     prolixity, redundance, redundancy, savarin, shortcake, spice cake,
     sponge cake, superfluity, superfluousness, tautology, tea cake,
     tinsel, trappings, trickery, trumpery, unnecessariness, verbosity,
     white cake, yellow cake