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• Gingerbread — is a sweet that can take the form of a cake or a cookie in which the predominant flavors are ginger and raw sugar.HistoryGingerbread was brought to Europe by the Crusaders.The first recorded mention of gingerbread being baked in the town dates… …   Wikipedia

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• gingerbread — late 13c., gingerbrar, from O.Fr. ginginbrat ginger preserve, from M.L. gingimbratus gingered, from gingiber (see GINGER (Cf. ginger)). The ending changed by folk etymology to brede bread, a formation attested by mid 14c. Originally preserved… …   Etymology dictionary

• house — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. abode, residence; chamber, legislature; firm, organization, company; family, ancestry, lineage. See business. v. t. shelter, protect; cover, contain, harbor. See party, covering. II (Roget s IV) n. 1 …   English dictionary for students

• gingerbread — noun a) A type of cake whose main flavouring is ginger and that is typically cut into human shaped pieces called gingerbread men or built into house shaped cakes called gingerbread houses. b) A flamboyant Victorian era architectural style …   Wiktionary

• gingerbread — gin|ger|bread [ˈdʒındʒəbred US dʒər ] n [U] [Date: 1200 1300; Origin: gingebras preserved ginger (13 14 centuries), from Old French gingembraz, from gimgibre ( GINGER); influenced by bread] 1.) a heavy sweet cake or a ↑biscuit with ginger in it… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• gingerbread — gin•ger•bread [[t]ˈdʒɪn dʒərˌbrɛd[/t]] n. 1) coo a type of cake or fancifully shaped cookie flavored with ginger and molasses 2) archit. elaborate or superfluous architectural ornamentation 3) heavily ornamented: a house with gingerbread… …   From formal English to slang

• List of house types — Contents 1 Detached single unit housing 2 Semi detached dwellings 3 Attached Multi unit housing …   Wikipedia

• Lines in the Sand (House) — This page refers to the TV episode, for other uses of this phrase, see the Lines in the Sand disambiguation page House (TV series) episode episode name = Lines in the Sand episode no = HOU 304 airdate = September 26 2006 writer = David Hoselton… …   Wikipedia

• The Gingerbread Man — is an English fairy tale about a gingerbread man that comes to life. It exists in several variants, in which the piece of food is not always the same. Joseph Jacobs collected two variants; in English Fairy Tales , it is a Johnny Cake (sweet… …   Wikipedia

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