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Gingerbread office

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    An office in the gingerbread Victorian style.

    "Morley: A year and a half ago I stumbled into your gingerbread office, a lost, frightened soul in terrified flight across the great yawning terror of doubt—a human being, in short!—and you chanted some hagridden formulas and danged some fylfots..."

  2. 2
    An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory. euphemistic, obsolete, slang

    "There's no great need of Souldiers; Their Camp's No larger than a Ginger-bread Office."

Etymology

From gingerbread (“in its figurative use as ersatz or unpleasant”) + office (“place to fulfill one's obligations; place of business”)

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