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.
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.