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white bread (n.)
c. 1300, as opposed to darker whole-grain type, from
white
(adj.) +
bread
(n.). Its popularity among middle-class America led to the slang adjectival sense of "conventional, bourgeois" (c. 1980). Old English had
hwitehlaf
.
