gingerbread

n. A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. “Gingerbread that was full fine.” Chaucer.

[ 1913 Webster ]

Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm. --
Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character. [ 1913 Webster ]