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white bread  noun [mass noun]Bread that is light in colour, made with flour that has been through a refining process: a thick slice of white bread [count noun]: refined carbohydrates, such as white breads, contain more starch than whole grains...- Use nice, thick-cut white bread to make French toast.
- Americans consume five loaves of white bread for every loaf of whole wheat.
- White bread is low in fiber.
adjective (white-bread) North American informalBlandly conventional in a way that is regarded as characteristic of the white middle classes: inoffensive white-bread comedies...- Before that, before corporate man became a sexy thing, corporate America was a white-bread, repressed, deeply uncool place to be.
- And all of sudden, we then get white-bread television, and you know, we'll have television of the '50s again.
- We must find some alternative to the most insular tendencies of ethnic social clubs, but not white-bread homogeneity or the romance of going it alone.
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