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Definition of white bread in English:

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
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Only the richer farmers and lords in villages were able to grow the wheat needed to make white bread.
    • We'll cook the turkey our way, have chestnut-apple dressing using fresh white bread, eat whole berry cranberry sauce and al dente veggies.
    • Frightened, they ran away but returned shortly after to the soldier with a loaf of rye bread and a round of white bread.
    • Americans consume five loaves of white bread for every loaf of whole wheat.
    • I ordered my usual: white bread, turkey, lettuce, tomatoes, and mayonnaise.
    • Use nice, thick-cut white bread to make French toast.
    • White bread is low in fiber.
    • "Bread baked with this flour has a taste and texture very similar to white bread," says Hallfrisch.
    • The sandwich is a slice of black or white bread with butter and cheese or sausage, slices of fresh tomato, radish, or cucumber.
    • Breads with high fibre make you feel fuller than white bread.
adjective
North American informal
  • Blandly conventional in a way that is regarded as characteristic of the white middle classes.

    inoffensive white-bread comedies
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Before that, before corporate man became a sexy thing, corporate America was a white-bread, repressed, deeply uncool place to be.
    • Visitors in a modern masterpiece can move between the white-bread platitudes of Norman Rockwell - the other show on view - and south-of-the-border extravagance.
    • I, however, am a thoroughly mainstream, white-bread guy.
    • Michael Ontkean, better known as Sheriff Harry Truman in David Lynch's unforgettable Twin Peaks, is Terry's naïve white-bread partner and roommate, Willie Gillis.
    • Where the latter projected a very 1970s notion of white-bread southern Californian womanhood, the new angels are ‘independent women’, as the theme tune by Destiny's Child makes explicit.
    • Powell was a cipher to inoculate the Republicans from seeming too white-bread.
    • Six months later, they go on a trip, combining a visit to a Carolinan idiot-savant artist with one to George's white-bread, Christian, closely knit family, where the sophisticate Madeleine is the outsider.
    • When he was bounced over to the FBI, I mean, my God, talk about a white-bread organization.
    • 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.
    • We are branded as different, all those of us who have not grown up in generic, white-bread America.
    • When Elvis Hunkee and his white-bread family come strolling in, bumped onto NWA's maiden flight, the pace picks up again slightly.
    • Dean needs to shed his white-bread image and show he can do more than just speak a few sentences of so-so Spanish.
    • Now that one of America's most white-bread movie stars has shown that he's keenly aware of the racial inequities of Hollywood casting, what's everybody else's excuse?
    • If this British duo's white-bread synthpop was too exotic and intoxicating for your taste, try this tepid rehash of that '80s sound.
    • Her abrupt banishment meant that Mendieta was transformed from an upper-middle-class child grounded in her family and culture to an impoverished outsider living in white-bread, Iowa foster homes.
    • Stuck in Fryburg, California, a white-bread suburb of San Diego, Vinnie tries to get over on and is protected by Agent Barney Coopersmith (Moranis).
    • I think it's time for the university to recognize that it's not a white-bread, male-only world anymore.
    • And all of sudden, we then get white-bread television, and you know, we'll have television of the '50s again.
    • In her checkered uniform and starched white hat, and with her bubbly good spirits, Betty at first appears to be a familiar caricature of white-bread America.

Definition of white bread in US English:

white bread

nounˈ(h)waɪt ˌbrɛdˈ(h)wīt ˌbred
  • Bread that is light in color, made with flour that has been through a refining process.

    a thick slice of white bread
    refined carbohydrates, such as white breads, contain more starch than whole grains
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I ordered my usual: white bread, turkey, lettuce, tomatoes, and mayonnaise.
    • Only the richer farmers and lords in villages were able to grow the wheat needed to make white bread.
    • Americans consume five loaves of white bread for every loaf of whole wheat.
    • The sandwich is a slice of black or white bread with butter and cheese or sausage, slices of fresh tomato, radish, or cucumber.
    • Breads with high fibre make you feel fuller than white bread.
    • Frightened, they ran away but returned shortly after to the soldier with a loaf of rye bread and a round of white bread.
    • White bread is low in fiber.
    • We'll cook the turkey our way, have chestnut-apple dressing using fresh white bread, eat whole berry cranberry sauce and al dente veggies.
    • "Bread baked with this flour has a taste and texture very similar to white bread," says Hallfrisch.
    • Use nice, thick-cut white bread to make French toast.
adjectiveˈ(h)waɪt ˌbrɛdˈ(h)wīt ˌbred
North American informal
  • Blandly conventional in a way that is regarded as characteristic of the white middle classes.

    inoffensive white-bread comedies
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We are branded as different, all those of us who have not grown up in generic, white-bread America.
    • Before that, before corporate man became a sexy thing, corporate America was a white-bread, repressed, deeply uncool place to be.
    • Dean needs to shed his white-bread image and show he can do more than just speak a few sentences of so-so Spanish.
    • I, however, am a thoroughly mainstream, white-bread guy.
    • And all of sudden, we then get white-bread television, and you know, we'll have television of the '50s again.
    • When Elvis Hunkee and his white-bread family come strolling in, bumped onto NWA's maiden flight, the pace picks up again slightly.
    • In her checkered uniform and starched white hat, and with her bubbly good spirits, Betty at first appears to be a familiar caricature of white-bread America.
    • Michael Ontkean, better known as Sheriff Harry Truman in David Lynch's unforgettable Twin Peaks, is Terry's naïve white-bread partner and roommate, Willie Gillis.
    • If this British duo's white-bread synthpop was too exotic and intoxicating for your taste, try this tepid rehash of that '80s sound.
    • Visitors in a modern masterpiece can move between the white-bread platitudes of Norman Rockwell - the other show on view - and south-of-the-border extravagance.
    • Six months later, they go on a trip, combining a visit to a Carolinan idiot-savant artist with one to George's white-bread, Christian, closely knit family, where the sophisticate Madeleine is the outsider.
    • Powell was a cipher to inoculate the Republicans from seeming too white-bread.
    • Now that one of America's most white-bread movie stars has shown that he's keenly aware of the racial inequities of Hollywood casting, what's everybody else's excuse?
    • When he was bounced over to the FBI, I mean, my God, talk about a white-bread organization.
    • I think it's time for the university to recognize that it's not a white-bread, male-only world anymore.
    • Where the latter projected a very 1970s notion of white-bread southern Californian womanhood, the new angels are ‘independent women’, as the theme tune by Destiny's Child makes explicit.
    • Stuck in Fryburg, California, a white-bread suburb of San Diego, Vinnie tries to get over on and is protected by Agent Barney Coopersmith (Moranis).
    • Her abrupt banishment meant that Mendieta was transformed from an upper-middle-class child grounded in her family and culture to an impoverished outsider living in white-bread, Iowa foster homes.
    • 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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