ante-bellum
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A few weeks ago in Dallas, a white-haired, grandmotherly woman paraded around the hall in an ante-bellum dress of red, white and blue.
From Time Magazine Archive
A rundown ante-bellum mansion serves as the administration building.
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
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
