英语词汇“gingerbread house”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

gingerbread house n. (a) an ornate or quaintly designed building; (b) a house made of gingerbread, cakes, etc., originally as depicted in fairy tales (esp. the story of Hansel and Gretel in Engelbert Humperdinck's operatic version) and subsequently as an actual confection. [In sense (b) after German Pefferkuchenhaus (mid 19th cent. or earlier); the motif is apparently first recorded in a Silesian folk tale, but was subsequently associated with the story of Hansel and Gretel (which in the Grimm version (1812) has a house made of bread, cake, and sugar). Compare also German Knusperhäuschen, lit. ‘little house for nibbling’ (mid 19th cent. or earlier; also used in Humperdinck's operatic version of Hansel and Gretel).]

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1804 T. Gilliland Elbow Room 28 The people will be justified in with-drawing their patronage from his [sc. Mr. Kemble's] Gingerbread House; as it certainly is, when compared with the ‘splendid desert’ which he was to have made of that truly superb, convenient, and elegant structure Drury Lane Theatre.

1851 F. Egerton Jrnl. 14 Feb. in Jrnl. Winter's Tour in India (1852) I. xi. 289 The present man is building a great gingerbread house, all over gold and shiny brass.

1875 tr. My First White Hair 18 ‘The story of my first white hair would not suit my little Annie yet,’... ‘Is there nothing about a gingerbread house or a little hop-o'-my-thumb in it?’ asked Annie.

1895 Monthly Musical Rec. Feb. 31/2 Frequent representations of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, which are, curiously enough, attended by many children on account of the gingerbread house.

1896 J. M. Barrie Sentimental Tommy xviii. 203 For Aaron, almost the only man in Thrums who shunned the revels that day, she bought a gingerbread house.

1983 ‘J. le Carré’ Little Drummer Girl (1984) ii. 48 Kurtz's destination was the top floor of a high-gabled gingerbread house right at the heart of fashionable Munich.

1999 J. Harris Chocolat (2000) v. 33 A gingerbread house, walls of chocolate-coated pain d'épices, with the detail piped on in silver and gold icing, roof tiles of florentines studded with crystallized fruits.

单词	gingerbread house
释义	> as lemmas gingerbread house gingerbread house n. (a) an ornate or quaintly designed building; (b) a house made of gingerbread, cakes, etc., originally as depicted in fairy tales (esp. the story of Hansel and Gretel in Engelbert Humperdinck's operatic version) and subsequently as an actual confection. [In sense (b) after German Pefferkuchenhaus (mid 19th cent. or earlier); the motif is apparently first recorded in a Silesian folk tale, but was subsequently associated with the story of Hansel and Gretel (which in the Grimm version (1812) has a house made of bread, cake, and sugar). Compare also German Knusperhäuschen, lit. ‘little house for nibbling’ (mid 19th cent. or earlier; also used in Humperdinck's operatic version of Hansel and Gretel).] ΚΠ 1804 T. Gilliland Elbow Room 28 The people will be justified in with-drawing their patronage from his [sc. Mr. Kemble's] Gingerbread House; as it certainly is, when compared with the ‘splendid desert’ which he was to have made of that truly superb, convenient, and elegant structure Drury Lane Theatre. 1851 F. Egerton Jrnl. 14 Feb. in Jrnl. Winter's Tour in India (1852) I. xi. 289 The present man is building a great gingerbread house, all over gold and shiny brass. 1875 tr. My First White Hair 18 ‘The story of my first white hair would not suit my little Annie yet,’... ‘Is there nothing about a gingerbread house or a little hop-o'-my-thumb in it?’ asked Annie. 1895 Monthly Musical Rec. Feb. 31/2 Frequent representations of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, which are, curiously enough, attended by many children on account of the gingerbread house. 1896 J. M. Barrie Sentimental Tommy xviii. 203 For Aaron, almost the only man in Thrums who shunned the revels that day, she bought a gingerbread house. 1983 ‘J. le Carré’ Little Drummer Girl (1984) ii. 48 Kurtz's destination was the top floor of a high-gabled gingerbread house right at the heart of fashionable Munich. 1999 J. Harris Chocolat (2000) v. 33 A gingerbread house, walls of chocolate-coated pain d'épices, with the detail piped on in silver and gold icing, roof tiles of florentines studded with crystallized fruits. extracted from gingerbreadn.adj. < as lemmas
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