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means A sweet, spiced cake or stiff cookie flavored with ginger and molasses, often shaped into figures or built into decorative houses.

from Despite the name, the original word had nothing to do with bread. It comes from Old French 'gingebras,' meaning preserved ginger, which traces back through Medieval Latin 'gingibratum' to Latin 'zingiber,' ginger itself — a word that likely traveled west from Sanskrit 'srngaveram,' said to mean 'horn-root,' for the knobbly shape of the rhizome. In Middle English 'gingebras' got reshaped by folk etymology into '-bread,' because the stuff was something you baked and ate, and the unfamiliar ending was nudged toward a familiar one. The decorative sense — fancy carved house trim called 'gingerbread work' — came later, borrowing the cookie's reputation for elaborate, ornate fussiness.