Color Names

Gingerbread

Warm, spiced brown, like the crumbs from a just-baked Christmas treat.

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Gingerbread is a medium brown.

It can be described as medium, moderate, fairly saturated and warm.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Gingerbread

Gingerbread

Gingerbread refers to a broad category of baked goods, typically flavored with ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon and sweetened with honey, sugar, or molasses. Gingerbread foods vary, ranging from a moist loaf cake to forms nearly as crisp as a ginger snap.

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Gingerbread (architecture)

Gingerbread is an architectural style that consists of elaborately detailed embellishment known as "gingerbread trim". It is more specifically used to describe the detailed decorative work of American designers in the late 1860s and 1870s, which was associated mostly with the Carpenter Gothic style. It was loosely based on the Picturesque period of English architecture in the 1830s.

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gingerbread

Noun

  1. A type of cake whose main flavoring is ginger.
  2. Something ersatz; something showy but insubstantial.

Verb

  1. To decorate or embellish in an ornate or intricate way.
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