white-bread

Origin

white bread

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

Origin:
1300–50

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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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Word Origin & History

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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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