A kind of cake, pudding, or (now most commonly) biscuit flavoured with ginger or other spices.
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| 释义 | the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > gingerbread (15) gingerbreada1450 A kind of cake, pudding, or (now most commonly) biscuit flavoured with ginger or other spices. dry leach1570 A dish consisting of sliced meat, eggs, fruits, and spices in jelly or some other coagulating material. Often in adoptions of Anglo-Norman… pepper-gingerbread1598 = pepper cake n. pepper bread1611 †(a) gingerbread (obsolete); (b) a type of bread made with ground or cracked black pepper. gingerbread nut1734 = ginger nut n. (a) at ginger, n. adj.1compounds 2. ginger cake1758 a cake flavoured with ginger; (in early use) gingerbread, esp. in the form of a cake. ginger nut1786 (a) a hard sweet biscuit strongly flavoured with ginger; (in early use also) a small ginger-flavoured cake, a round piece of gingerbread (cf. nut, n.1… parkin1800 A kind of gingerbread made from oatmeal and treacle; (as a count noun) a piece or cake of this. parliament gingerbread1809 = parliament cake n. parliament1812 Short for parliament cake n. at compounds 3. Now rare (in later use historical). parliament cake1818 a thin flat type of gingerbread. parley1825 A thin flat type of gingerbread; = parliament cake n. at parliament, n.1 compounds 3. spice-nut1829 a gingerbread nut. Pfefferkuchen1856 In Germany and German-speaking countries and areas: a spiced cake or gingerbread. Hoosier cake1859 (see quot. 1859). |
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