gingerbread

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Pierced curvilinear ornament, executed with the jig saw or scroll saw, under the eaves of roofs. So called after the sugar frosting on German gingerbread houses. Photo from Traverse City, Michigan, 2018. (Whiffen, 1969)

Synonyms:
Gingerbread vergeboard, bargeboard
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