What is "gingery"

Usage examples of "gingery".

She noticed in the golden haze of the light that, though his hair was white, his eyelashes were still the same fairish gingery red that must have been his whole coloring at one time.

Marion Nuckles arrives in a puff of Calvin Klein chalk dust, all gingery and erectile.

She liked the rituals of this O Bon Odori, a Japanese dance festival that let her dress up in a blue and white cotton ukata, feast on juicy BBQ squid, gingery pancakes and luscious mango shave ice, fried noodles, and sweetened bean confections.

Lubbock proved to be a plumpish, middle-aged man with a gingery mustache and a thin section of lank hair brushed across a balding skull.

Richard Sackbut had finally appeared and turned out to be a man, perhaps in his late forties, whose long chin, gingery hair and blue eyes were echoed in all the family portraits we had seen.

He turned to Ekman, the Minister for Munitions, a pallid Northerner with thinning gingery hair.

She liked the rituals of this O Bon Odori, a Japanese dance festival that let her dress up in a blue and white cotton ukata, feast on juicy BBQ squid, gingery pancakes and luscious mango shave ice, fried noodles, and sweetened bean confections.

A thatch of gingery hair peeked out over the collar of his violet-blue T-shirt, which was tucked into a pair of indecently snug worn jeans.

He walked through the shrine's precinct, where the neighborhood's residents flocked around stalls that sold snacks and amazake, the sweet, gingery fermented New Year's rice brew.

Its well-intentioned wanderings and blunderings were somehow meant to be combined with the fierce determination of a piebald pony, running in its tight circle with a kind of traumatized invariance, apparently prepared to keep doing that forever while the elephant plodded helplessly about, so anxious to please, black rheum thrown off from its eyes like sweat, its damp-damaged hide lightly coated with the kind of hair that sprouts out near a healing wound, gingery and brittle, like the weft of baklava.

The girl dancing topless for my benefit, and for that of the gingery, hermaphroditic figure seated two stools to my right, was short and shy and puppyishly built.