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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
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). |
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