ante-bellum
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This is partly because Shaw's ante-bellum England is not in itself a theme, but only a framework for one.
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Both Burnet and Rhett are maternal family names famous in ante-bellum days.
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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.
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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.
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Our mothers’ silk stockings, of ante-bellum date, were ravelled with patience and transformed into the prettiest of neat-fitting gloves.
From The Women of the Confederacy by Underwood, J. L.
