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an⋅te⋅bel⋅lum

  [an-tee-bel-uhm]
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–adjective
before or existing before the war, esp. the American Civil War.
Origin:
1860–65; < L ante bellum before the war
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an·te·bel·lum   (ān'tē-běl'əm)   
adj.  Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

[Latin ante bellum : ante, before + bellum, war.]
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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.”

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