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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1577-1578, 1662-1681
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Gingebread, -breid, n. Also: ging-, ginsbread. [ME. gingebreed, -brede.] Gingerbread. — a1578 Pitsc. I. 337/4.
Farder thair was of meittis, of breid quhyte breid, maine breid, and gingebreid 1662 Carstairs Lett. 96.
Send me the least of your cakes of gingbread 1673 Leith Customs 6.
400 pound ginge bread 1681 Blackness Customs 20 b, etc.
Ane hundretht pund of ginsbread in a caske
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