pepper-gingerbread (n.) Old form(s): Pepper Ginger-bread
hot-spiced gingerbread
1H4 III.i.249[Hotspur to Lady Percy] Swear me, Kate ... / A good mouth-filling oath, and leave ... such protest of pepper-gingerbread, / To velvet-guards [i.e. protestation of brief taste, or effect]
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