white-bread
white bread
noun
any white or light-colored bread made from finely ground, usually bleached, flour.
Origin:
1300–50
1300–50
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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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