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ante-bellum

ADJECTIVE
before the war
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Life at Glen Lily, the general's 1,000-acre estate near Munfordville, Ky., went on in much the same spacious ante-bellum way.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is an evening of dramatic readings thoughtfully culled from the statements of Presidents, the reminiscences of ex-slaves and ante-bellum Southern matrons, the rantings of bigots.

From Time Magazine Archive

Liberia's annual budget came to $750,000, and government departments were quartered in shabby, corrugated-metal reproductions of Southern U.S. ante-bellum mansions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Louisiana's Greek Revival Belle Grove, one of the most beautiful of ante-bellum plantation mansions, was burned to the ground by vandals as it stood abandoned.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the present time we have a repetition of the ante-bellum aggression.

From Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy by Grayson, David