Meaning of GINGERBREAD
| Pronunciation: | | 'jinjur`bred
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| | Definition: | | [n] cake flavored with ginger |
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| | Definition: | |  Gingerbread
Recovering hellion Cyd Charisse (after the famed entertainer) reaches the breaking point with her mother and stepfather and her boyfriend, Shrimp, and has only her childhood doll, Gingerbread, to confide in. The 16-year-old is dispatched from her San Francisco home to New York City for the summer, to stay with her father, whom she has met only once. Her time away from home coupled with her reintroduction to her father changes Cyd forever. Named one of the Best Children`s Books 2002 by Publishers Weekly. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
{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.
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