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white bread

–noun
any white or light-colored bread made from finely ground, usu. bleached, flour.

Origin:
1300–50

white-bread

[hwahyt-bred, wahyt-]
–adjective Informal: Disparaging.
1. pertaining to or characteristic of the white middle class; bourgeois: white-bread liberals.
2. bland; conventional.

Origin:
1975–80
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white bread  
n.  Bread made from finely ground, usually bleached wheat flour. See Regional Note at light bread.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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