ante-bellum
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Sumner, Miss, belongs to the Deeper South�the one without its own memories of ante-bellum order or graciousness.
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
A rundown ante-bellum mansion serves as the administration building.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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But the flavor, the spectacular effects, linger only in the memory of the rapidly lessening number who mingled deeply in ante-bellum politics.
From Sons and Fathers by Edwards, Harry Stillwell
