gingerbread house

Cookie-walled dwelling

A gingerbread house is a confection made from gingerbread cookies shaped and assembled into a small building, typically decorated with icing and candies.

Associated with Christmas traditions, gingerbread houses range from simple kits to elaborate architectural creations.

The fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel" features a witch's gingerbread house used to lure children: The kids spent all afternoon decorating their gingerbread house.

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edibility/materiality

gingerbread housebrick house

Building of stacked blocks

stone house · permanent residence · log cabin · wooden house

permanence/durability

gingerbread housefortress

Heavily defended military structure

castle · bunker · bomb shelter · monument · pyramid

function/purpose

gingerbread housefamily home

Residence shared by kin

apartment · tract home · public housing

Family

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Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G