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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   (hwīt'brěd', wīt'-)
adj.  Blandly conventional, especially when considered as typical of white middle-class America: "The proven ability of blacks to appeal to mainstream America ... shattered forever the mythology that only white-bread 'mainstream' culture could sell" (Joel Kotkin).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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