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gingerbreads

gingerbreads is the plural of gingerbread.

gingerbreads is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gingerbread.

Meaning of gingerbread

Noun

gingerbread (countable and uncountable, plural gingerbreads)

  1. A type of cake whose main flavoring is ginger.
  2. (figuratively, obsolete) Something ersatz; something showy but insubstantial.
  3. A flamboyant Victorian-era architectural style.
    • For a time modern architects took a starkly functional approach to the design of houses, emphasizing clean, uncluttered lines and rejecting most forms of wall ornamentation as dust-catching gingerbread.1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 37

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Phrases with gingerbreads

Questions about gingerbreads

What is gingerbreads the plural of?
Gingerbreads is the plural of gingerbread.

Words near gingerbreads in the dictionary

  1. gingerbreaded up
  2. gingerbreading
  3. gingerbreading up
  4. Gingerbreadman map
  5. Gingerbreadman maps
  6. gingerbreads
  7. gingerbreads up
  8. gingerbready
  9. gingercake
  10. gingercakes
  11. gingered

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