white bread
noun
any white or light-colored bread made from finely ground, usually bleached, flour.
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white-breadadjectivepertaining to or characteristic of the white middle class; bourgeois.
white bread
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white breads
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white-bread
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[hwahyt-bred, wahyt-]
/ ˈʰwaɪtˌbrɛd, ˈwaɪt- /
adjective
Informal.
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pertaining to or characteristic of the white middle class; bourgeois.
a typical white-bread suburban neighborhood.
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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
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Refined carbohydrates include foods such as white bread, pastries, and many sugary products that have been stripped of much of their natural fiber and nutrients.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
Later, with the news of Hitler’s demise, she sinks into a depression, refusing food unless it’s white bread, butter and honey, all in scarce supply.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
Previous school food standards introduced in 2015 also included fruit and vegetable requirements, limiting sugar in drinks, and an emphasis on wholegrain foods instead of refined carbohydrates, like white bread or pasta.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
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 ● Jan. 19, 2026
For there stood a bowl filled with sweetened milk, in which swam tiny pieces of white bread.
From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
The goal was to enable Disney to avoid the honky-tonk character of development around Disneyland in Anaheim, and instead keep the Florida property in perfectly coiffed white-bread comeliness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023
The colonel stifled Elvis’s desire to go for prestigious movies like “West Side Story” and pushed him to make white-bread girls-in-paradise pop musicals that got worse and worse.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2022
I remember that flight as though it happened last week — the noise of the plane, the uniformed soldiers, the white-bread sandwiches they gave us though no one was very hungry.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2019
Obviously, my rural, white-bread childhood during the ’50s wasn’t everybody’s ’50s.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2016
To bake this bread, sift together one quart of this "whole-ground" rye flour and two quarts of white-bread flour.
From Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" by Edith Thomas
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