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Gingerbread Husbands

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Gingerbread cakes fashioned like men and gilt, commonly sold at fairs up to the middle of the nineteenth century.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Gilpin (John)
Gilt (g hard)
Gilt-edge Investments
Giltspur Street (West Smithfield)
Gimlet Eye (g hard)
Gimmer (g soft)
Gin Sling
Ginevra (g soft)
Gingerbread
Gingerbread (g soft)
Gingerbread Husbands
Gingerly
Gingham
Ginnunga Gap
Giona (g soft)
Giotto
Giovanni (Don)
Gipsy (g soft)
Gipsy (The)
Giralda (g soft)
Gird