Gingerbread

Wednesday 7^th December 2016

Gingerbread - /ˈdʒɪndʒəbrɛd/

Noun
1) Cake made with treacle or syrup and flavoured with ginger

2) [often as modifier] Elaborate or ornate decoration, especially on the eaves or porch of a building

‘A high-gabled gingerbread house’

Example sentences

Noun

‘It will sell goods like gingerbread, cakes, crafts and Christmas decorations’

Origin 

Middle English (originally denoting preserved ginger), from Old French gingembrat, from Medieval Latin gingibratum, from gingiber (see ginger). The change in the ending in the 15th century was due to association with bread.

Thanks to: www.oxforddictionaries.com