| 单词 | gingerbread-like |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈgingerbread-like ˈgingerbread-like adj. (a) (of architecture, decoration, etc.) that is suggestive of the elaborate, often gaudy decoration associated with gingerbread; (b) that resembles gingerbread in respect of taste, smell, etc. ΚΠ 1764 Royal Mag. Apr. 210/2 The statue..would have been better if it had been done similar to the rest, in free-stone, and gilt in a ginger-bread like manner. 1869 W. Colenso On Bot. North Island N.Z. 31 in Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1868 1 The pollen..was..made into large gingerbread like cakes. 1987 Toronto Star (Nexis) 5 May g1 A long stone path leads visitors from busy Eastwood Ave. to the front door of a gingerbread-like house. 2014 S. Deschenes Eat Year 376 They've been making a gingerbread-like sweet called lebkuchen since the thirteenth or fourteenth century. < as lemmas |
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