See gingery in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "gingery hair / freckles; the gingery fur of a fox",
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"ref": "1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “chapter 19”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:",
"text": "The very learned gentleman […] has cooled the natural heat of his gingery complexion in pools and fountains of law […]",
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"ref": "1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Club-Footed Grocer”, in Round the Fire Stories, London: Smith, Elder & Co., published 1908, page 212:",
"text": "He was a small, thick man, with a great rounded, bald head and one thin border of gingery curls.",
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"ref": "1972, Norma Klein, chapter 7, in Mom, the Wolf Man and Me, New York: Avon, page 75:",
"text": "He had bright red hair, not just gingery like Andrew’s […]",
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"ref": "1899, Joseph Conrad, chapter 2, in Heart of Darkness:",
"text": "The red-haired pilgrim was beside himself with the thought that at least this poor Kurtz had been properly revenged. […] He positively danced, the bloodthirsty little gingery beggar.",
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"text": "a gingery broth / stir-fry",
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"ref": "2005, Truman Capote, chapter 6, in Summer Crossing, New York: Random House:",
"text": "Nostalgic, gingery hints of Spanish geranium wafted in her mother’s room […]",
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"ref": "1909 March 29, Fred Tenney, “Giants Take Last Game from Dallas”, in New York Times:",
"text": "The boys have made themselves very popular with the fans here, because a good, gingery gaffe is played all the time, regardless of the score.",
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"ref": "1911 August 19, Kentucky Irish American, Louisville, Kentucky:",
"text": "The recent showing of the locals has been a big disappointment to the fans, the team playing loosely, and the gingery coaching and hustling of Hulswitt has been the only redeeming feature.",
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"text": "1912, P. R. Bennett, “Patience on a Throne” in Ducdame: A Book of Verses, London: Elliot Stock, p. 44,\nThe man who reads his history of any clime or age\nFinds characters of potentates disfiguring each page,\nSo touchy and so gingery\nThat every little injury\nWill send them flying off into a rage."
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"ref": "1994, John Malcolm, chapter 18, in Hung Over, New York: St. Martin’s Press, page 130:",
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"ref": "1857, Thomas Mayne Reid, chapter 93, in The War-Trail, New York: De Witt, page 455:",
"text": "I walked slowly, and with an assumed air of careless indifference. I counterfeited the Comanche walk—not that bold free port—the magnificent and inimitable stride, so characteristic of Chippewa and Shawano, of Huron and Iroquois—but the shuffling gingery step of an English jockey; for such in reality is the gait of the Comanche Indian when afoot.",
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"ref": "1919, H. L. Mencken, “George Ade”, in Prejudices: First Series, NY: Knopf, page 115:",
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