Lexicographical Neighbors of Gingerbready
Literary usage of Gingerbready
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Church Building: A Study of the Principles of Architecture in Their Relation by Ralph Adams Cram (1914)
"... but it must be carefully designed, and with great gravity and restraint, for
it will tend to the condition of the frivolous, " gingerbready " follies ..."
2. Paris in '67: Or, The Great Exposition, Its Side-shows and Excursions by Henry Morford (1867)
"... without, than they seem to be held by the English people, who make an affectation
of considering them gingerbready, tawdry, and in bad taste. ..."
3. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1872)
"... daughters' taste may, by a wholesome dress-regimen, be so directed as to
acquire a vigorous health, which will make them scorn all these gingerbready, ..."
4. The Canadian Monthly and National Review by William White (1872)
"... daughters' taste may, by a wholesome dress-regimen, be so directed as to
acquire a vigorous health, which will make them scorn all these gingerbready, ..."
5. Aguecheek [pseud.] by Charles Fairbanks (1859)
"... certainly, and the lately finished towers are a pleasing feature in the view
from the bridges; but they are altogether too gingerbready to wear well. ..."
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