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   [an-tee-bel-uhm]
adjective
before or existing before the war, especially the American Civil War.
Origin:
1860–65; < Latin ante bellum before the war
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  • Ten years ago, this quaint antebellum log home with a stone hearth was moved from another location and thoroughly renovated.
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  • In the antebellum South, it was against the law to teach slaves to read.
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antebellum (ˌæntɪˈbɛləm)
 
—adj
of or during the period before a war, esp the American Civil War: the antebellum South
 
[Latin ante bellum, literally: before the war]

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antebellum
from L. phrase ante bellum, lit. "before the war;" in U.S., usually in ref. to Amer. Civil War (1861-65); first attested in a June 14, 1862, entry in Mary Chesnut's diary.
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antebellum [(an-tee-bel-uhm)]

A descriptive term for objects and institutions, especially houses, that originated three or four decades before the Civil War. Antebellum is Latin for “before the war.”

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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