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gingerbread(dictionary)
gingerbread(encyclopedia)
gingerbread(dictionary)
Old-Fashioned Gingerbread(recipes)
Old Fashioned Gingerbread(recipes)
Gingerbread Squares(recipes)
Gingerbread People(recipes)
Gingerbread Muffins(recipes)
Gingerbread Bears(recipes)

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In architecture and design, elaborately detailed embellishment, either lavish or superfluous.

Though the term is occasionally applied to such highly detailed and decorative styles as the Rococo, it usually refers to the hand-carved and -sawn wood ornamentation of the Carpenter Gothic style.