Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Gingerbread

Gingerbread , noun

A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes.
Gingerbread that was full fine. — Chaucer
Collocations (2)
Gingerbread tree (Botany) , 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.