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English → English (gcide) Definition: Gingerbread work Gingerbread \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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]