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Definition: GINGERBREAD WORK |
GINGERBREAD WORK1. Ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character. |
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Slang in 1811 | GINGERBREAD WORK. Gilding and carving: these terms are particularly applied by seamen on board Newcastle colliers, to the decorations of the sterns and quarters of West-Indiamen, which they have the greatest joy in defacing. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Crosswords: GINGERBREAD WORK |
| Specialty definitions using "GINGERBREAD WORK": GINGERBREAD WORK. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-g-g-i-k-n-o-r-r-r-w" | |
-4 letters: gingerbread, windbreaker. | |
-5 letters: bridgework, reboarding, reordering, ringbarked. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 49 4E 47 45 52 42 52 45 41 44 57 4F 52 4B |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01001001 01001110 01000111 01000101 01010010 01000010 01010010 01000101 01000001 01000100 00100000 01010111 01001111 01010010 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G I N G E R B R E A D   W O R K |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0049 004E 0047 0045 0052 0042 0052 0045 0041 0044 0057 004F 0052 004B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4143484139523652393538257495245 |
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