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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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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

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

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

To stop the war, to return to the ante-bellum misery would mean that they have to account to the people for this undertaking.

From Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 by Trotzky, Leon Davidovich