gingerbread

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

gin·ger·bread [gingerbread gingerbreads] BrE [ˈdʒɪndʒəbred] NAmE [ˈdʒɪndʒərbred] noun uncountable
a sweet cake or soft biscuit/cookie flavoured with ↑ginger
•a gingerbread man (= a ↑gingerbread biscuit/cookie in the shape of a person)
see take the gilt off the gingerbread at ↑gilt

Word Origin:
Middle English (originally denoting ‘preserved ginger’), from Old French gingembrat, from medieval Latin gingibratum, from gingiber, from Greek zingiberis. The change in the ending in the 15th cent. was due to association with ↑bread.