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GINGERBREAD

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cake flavored with ginger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("gingerbread" is a kind of...):

cake (baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat)

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 Context examples: 

Didn't they steal sips of tea, stuff gingerbread ad libitum, get a hot biscuit apiece, and as a crowning trespass, didn't they each whisk a captivating little tart into their tiny pockets, there to stick and crumble treacherously, teaching them that both human nature and a pastry are frail?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But much as she liked to write for children, Jo could not consent to depict all her naughty boys as being eaten by bears or tossed by mad bulls because they did not go to a particular Sabbath school, nor all the good infants who did go as rewarded by every kind of bliss, from gilded gingerbread to escorts of angels when they departed this life with psalms or sermons on their lisping tongues.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)