gingerbread office
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gingerbread office
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From gingerbread (“in its figurative use as ersatz or unpleasant”) + office (“place to fulfill one's obligations; place of business”)
noun gingerbread offices
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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...
Similar: outhouse
- An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory. There's no great need of Souldiers; Their Camp's No larger than a Ginger-bread Office.
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title = {gingerbread office},
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