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ante-bellum

ADJECTIVE

before the war

Synonyms

WEAK

pre-Civil War prewar prior to the war

Example Sentences

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Both Burnet and Rhett are maternal family names famous in ante-bellum days.

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

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

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

Here with his absolute conception of the ante-bellum South is hinted the purpose which really animated it.

From The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South by Mitchell, Broadus