ante-bellum

ADJECTIVE

before the war

Synonyms

WEAK

pre-Civil War prewar prior to the war

Example Sentences

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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.

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

Sumner, Miss, belongs to the Deeper South�the one without its own memories of ante-bellum order or graciousness.

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