<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.</li><li>a rolled cookie similarly flavored, often cut in fanciful shapes, and sometimes frosted.</li><li>elaborate, gaudy, or superfluous architectural ornamentation: a series of gables embellished with gingerbread.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>heavily, gaudily, and superfluously ornamented: a gingerbread style of architecture.</li></ul>