bread of a light color, made from finely sifted wheat flour
white bread
white-breadwhite-bread
- of or characteristic of the white middle class, its values, etc.
- bland, conventional, etc.
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white bread
noun
Bread made from white flour.
white-bread
adjective
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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Adjective
(comparative more white-bread, superlative most white-bread)
- (US, pejorative) conventional and boring
Usage notes
- White-bread is used especially of the white middle-class. Hence, white-bread is pejorative slang for a white person or about a white person, as are lily-white and paleface.
Origin
From white bread.
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