gingerbread
noun
[ ˈdʒɪndʒəbrɛd ]
• cake made with treacle or syrup and flavoured with ginger.
• elaborate or ornate decoration, especially on the eaves or porch of a building.
• "a high-gabled gingerbread house"
Origin:
Middle English (originally denoting preserved ginger), from Old French gingembrat, from medieval Latin gingibratum, from gingiber (see ginger). The change in the ending in the 15th century was due to association with bread.
