light bread

noun Midland and Southern U.S.

any bread leavened with yeast.

Origin:
1815–25

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light bread
noun
bread made with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour [syn: white bread]

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Despite its name, this moist, light bread is made not with cracked wheat but with bulgur.

Dey made light bread in big ovens ant had cheese to eat wid it.

We use white wheat flour to make biscuits, dumplings and gravy at our house but eat little light bread.

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