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tiˈbɛl adjective
before or existing before a war, especially the American Civil War; prewar: the antebellum plantations of Georgia.
Origin:
1860–65; < Latin ante bellum before the war
1860–65; < Latin ante bellum before the war
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| —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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Gingerbread fretwork amid magnolia trees sets the tone for this antebellum home in a quaint seaport village.
You posed on the veranda of an antebellum mansion, or in the open doorway of a tropical villa.
She's plagued by events from her past and has traces of insanity in her antebellum lineage.
Almost 400 letters between mother and daughter draw the reader into the antebellum Southern aristocracy.
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