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gingerbread offices

gingerbread offices is the plural of gingerbread office.

Meaning of gingerbread office

Noun

gingerbread office (plural gingerbread offices)

  1. An office in the gingerbread Victorian style.
    • Morley: A year and a half ago I stumbled into your gingerbread office, a lost, frightened soul in terrified flight across the great yawning terror of doubt—a human being, in short!—and you chanted some hagridden formulas and danged some fylfots...1968, The Discovery of Drama, page 378
    Synonyms:
    outhouse
  2. (euphemistic, obsolete, slang) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
    • There's no great need of Souldiers;
      Their Camp's No larger than a Ginger-bread Office.a. 1643, William Cartwright, Lady-Errant, Act V, Scene i

Questions about gingerbread offices

What is gingerbread offices the plural of?
Gingerbread offices is the plural of gingerbread office.

Words near gingerbread offices in the dictionary

  1. gingerbread man
  2. gingerbread men
  3. gingerbread nut
  4. gingerbread nuts
  5. gingerbread office
  6. gingerbread offices
  7. gingerbread palm
  8. gingerbread palms
  9. gingerbread plum
  10. gingerbread plums
  11. gingerbread trap

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