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White-bread

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Adjective

1. white-bread

of or belonging to or representative of the white middle class

Example Sentences:
'white-bread America'
'a white-bread college student'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


White-bread

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noun
bread that is white in colour through having been made from bleached or bolted flour
We toasted thick slices of white bread till they were almost black.
White bread is inferior to wholemeal in vitamin content.

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White-bread

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bread of a light color, made from finely sifted wheat flour
adjective Informal
1. 
of or characteristic of the white middle class, its values, etc.
2. 
bland, conventional, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


White-bread

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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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