loaf bread
noun South Midland and Southern U.S.
commercially baked bread; store-bought bread.
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First recorded in 1550–60
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Example sentences from the Web for loaf bread
At both was found the same hospitality; the same polished floors; the same style of loaf-bread and velvet rolls.
Plantation Reminiscences|Letitia M. BurwellSoft-tommy, loaf-bread, in contradistinction to hard biscuit.
The Slang Dictionary|John Camden Hotten