white bread

¹ American  

noun

1. any white or light-colored bread made from finely ground, usually bleached, flour.

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white-bread ² American  

[hwahyt-bred, wahyt-] / ˈʰwaɪtˌbrɛd, ˈwaɪt- /

adjective

Informal.

1. pertaining to or characteristic of the white middle class; bourgeois.

   a typical white-bread suburban neighborhood.

2. bland; conventional.

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Etymology

Origin of white bread¹

First recorded in 1300–50

Origin of white-bread²

First recorded in 1975–80

Example Sentences

She was holding a cup of coffee and a homemade turkey sandwich — white bread, cut on the diagonal, slathered with Kewpie mayo and layered with lettuce — tucked into a brown paper bag.

From Salon

The new guidelines call for reducing refined carbs—think white bread—and recommend that people eat two to four servings of whole grains each day.

From The Wall Street Journal

But they also endorse foods like red meat and full-fat dairy, while taking a hard line against highly processed foods, added sugar and refined carbohydrates like white bread.

From The Wall Street Journal

Each Friday, friends drove to Munger’s home for a potluck lunch, carrying chicken sandwiches with butter on soft white bread, the crusts sometimes removed.

From The Wall Street Journal

There were ham sandwiches on crusty brown bread, and cucumber and cream cheese sandwiches on white bread with the crusts trimmed off.

From Literature

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