loaf bread

noun

, South Midland and Southern U.S.

1. commercially baked bread; store-bought bread.

Word History and Origins

Origin of loaf bread¹

First recorded in 1550–60

Example Sentences

Paid the night-guard and sent a present of white loaf bread and some tea to the Bek.

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In two years' time he was a sound miller, safe to trust with rough stuff for cattle or fine flour for white loaf-bread.

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Put all the ingredients in the middle of the flour, work well together and set to rise as loaf bread.

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Soft-tommy, loaf-bread, in contradistinction to hard biscuit.

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They are passionately fond of spirits, and next to these of loaf bread.

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