loaf bread

American  

noun

South Midland and Southern U.S.

1. commercially baked bread; store-bought bread.

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Etymology

Origin of loaf bread

First recorded in 1550–60

Example Sentences

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loaf bread

So the crumbs could theoretically be from some ancient loaf, bread broken at one of the most consequential meals in history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2023

Many Sudanese line up for hours to buy a loaf bread or to get fuel for their cars; others have fled abroad.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2020

At 120 a loaf, bread had actually been cheaper than the grain used to make it.

From Time Magazine Archive

His wife sends us every day, buttermilk, loaf bread, ice, and such vegetables as she has.

From Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee by Lee, Robert Edward, General

Here’s loaf bread, an’ it’s not bad, though I say it that made it.”

From Fort Desolation Red Indians and Fur Traders of Rupert's Land by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)