white bread

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noun

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

Origin of white bread

First recorded in 1300–50

white-bread

[hwahyt-bred, wahyt-]

adjective Informal.

pertaining to or characteristic of the white middle class; bourgeois: a typical white-bread suburban neighborhood.
bland; conventional.

Origin of white-bread

First recorded in 1975–80

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Related Words for whitebread

unremarkable, conventional, normal, simple, plain, humble, generic, common, mediocre, dull, workaday, traditional, ordinary, boring, weak, mild, bland, bloodless, feeble, constant

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Two decades later, Dr. Whitebread designed a panel showing photographs of famous medical pioneers of all nationalities.
History of the Division of Medical Sciences
Sami Khalaf Hamarneh
Whitebread, Fenwick, and three other Jesuits, afterwards underwent the same fate.
Historical Parallels, vol 3 (of 3)
Arthur Thomas Malkin
Also, in 1939, Dr. Whitebread was promoted to the rank of associate curator.
History of the Division of Medical Sciences
Sami Khalaf Hamarneh

Word Origin and History for whitebread

white bread

c.1300, as opposed to darker whole-grain type; its popularity among middle-class America led to the slang sense of "conventional, bourgeois" (c.1980).