Книга: Gingerbread «'Old Gingerbread'and the Schoolboys, by the Author of'Uncle Jack the Fault Killer'.»
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Gingerbread
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]
Источник: Gingerbread
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