gingerbread house

collocation in English

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gingerbread
noun[U]
uk
/ˈdʒɪn.dʒə.bred/us
/ˈdʒɪn.dʒɚ.bred/
a type of cake, usually very dark brown and soft, that ...
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house
noun
uk
/haʊs/us
/haʊs/
a building that people, usually one family, ...
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(Definition ofgingerbreadandhousefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Once there, they used the pieces they picked up to make the roof to agingerbreadhouse.
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Thegingerbreadhouseyard is usually decorated with icing to represent snow.
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Agingerbreadhousedoes not have to be an actual house, although it is the most common.
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The little woodpeckers eat the jelly beans, which send them jumping to thegingerbreadhouse.
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The siblings eventually come seek shelter in agingerbreadhouseowned by a witch.
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Some areas like thegingerbreadhousewere completely changed.
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It is a distinctive lighthouse that some believe resembles agingerbreadhouse.
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It was a wildgingerbreadhousestyle affair with a five storey (64 foot) tower with viewing platform.
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Made on a tabletop at home, it shows a toy dinosaur attacking agingerbreadhouse.
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Gingerbread and gingerbread houses are commonly decorated with sugar frosting.
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