brown bread

noun

any bread made of flour darker in color than bolted wheat flour, especially graham or whole wheat bread.
Boston brown bread.

Origin of brown bread

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

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I'll remember that, the next time we have brown-bread brewis!
The Merryweathers
Laura E. Richards
Even the craftsman sits down to his brown-bread and bacon and his ale.
London
Walter Besant
"Please get me a glass of milk with an egg in it, and some of that brown-bread turkey," she demanded.
Blue-grass and Broadway
Maria Thompson Daviess
Here the brown-bread kettle boiled over, creating a diversion; and Mirandy gladly rose to set it further back.
Meadow Grass
Alice Brown
I love every bean that was ever baked in Boston; every cod-fish-ball ever fried; and every brown-bread loaf ever baked there.
Caper-Sauce
Fanny Fern