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gingerbread
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gingerbread

In architecture and design, elaborately detailed embellishment, either lavish or superfluous. Though the term is occasionally applied to such highly detailed and decorative styles as the Rococo, it usually refers to the hand-carved and -sawn wood ornamentation of the Carpenter Gothic style.



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As for Fitch's designs, heightened by Mark Jonathan's evocative lighting, they are an amalgam of the straightforward (the witch's gingerbread house, though cleverly constructed, is conventional looking) and the richly personal (his forest creatures are hybrid animals, a little bit ``E.
There will be a gingerbread house contest to help out Habitat for Humanity.
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