gingerbread house

English

A gingerbread house

Noun

gingerbread house (plural gingerbread houses)

A novelty confectionery in the shape of a house, with walls, roof and sometimes chimney made of dense, crisp gingerbread, held together with frosting and decorated with candies; popular especially at Christmastime.
(architecture) A house in gingerbread style.

Translations

novelty confectionery

Finnish: piparkakkutalo (fi)
German: Lebkuchenhaus (de) n, Pfefferkuchenhaus (de) n
Icelandic: piparkökuhús n
Norwegian: pepperkakehus n
Swedish: pepparkakshus (sv) n

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