Definition of brown bread in US English: brown bread
noun Bread that is light brown in color, typically made using unbleached or unrefined whole wheat flour.
‘a plate of smoked salmon and brown bread’
‘wheatgerm is often used as a dietary supplement and is added to some brown breads’
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‘No matter where she was she still found time for knitting, gardening and making brown bread.’ ‘Chowder should be made rich and thick, served with doorstop slices of home-made brown bread and Irish butter.’ ‘Brown bread came in smaller loaves, either light or dark brown.’ ‘Margaret kept John in order with a healthy diet, eggs from their own chickens, homemade brown bread, jam, yoghurt.’ ‘Brown bread is served with the clams, and watermelon for dessert completes the feast.’ ‘Elegantly sliced brown bread and butter would be perfect with this mild-mannered salad, or perhaps some crusty French bread.’ ‘Bakeries carry a variety of breads, with brown bread and white soda bread served most often with meals.’ ‘Her daily routine was to wake about 4.30am and have a cup of tea and thin brown bread and butter, in bed.’ ‘As I took my seat a glass of water appeared, along with some superb homemade brown bread.’ adjective British rhyming slang (of a person) dead.
‘if the bite isn't treated within a short period of time, you'll be brown bread’
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‘Rather than appealing to hooligans' better nature, he should threaten them with physical violence: "If you start a ruck, you're brown bread."’ ‘"I'd love to play until I was brown bread, but not playing throughout the year has probably helped me adjust," he said.’ ‘He shouted to me that he'd find me and that 'I was brown bread'.’ ‘The exclamation, "Old Hovis is brown bread", would have made him laugh, I'm sure.’ ‘After the alarm was raised about the fire, he telephoned her mother and allegedly told her: "Neil is brown bread."’