gingerbread: Meaning and Definition of

gin•ger•bread

1. a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
2. a rolled cookie similarly flavored, often cut in fanciful shapes, and sometimes frosted.
3. elaborate, gaudy, or superfluous architectural ornamentation: a series of gables embellished with gingerbread.

1. heavily, gaudily, and superfluously ornamented: a gingerbread style of architecture.