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antebellum

/an-tee-bel-uhm/US // ˈæn tiˈbɛl əm //UK // (ˌæntɪˈbɛləm) //

前贝鲁姆,前贝勒姆,前贝伦,前贝勒

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : before or existing before a war, especially the American Civil War; prewar: the antebellum plantations of Georgia.

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Examples

  • The scathingly satirical play presented three interracial couples who participate in a retreat that practices “antebellum sexual performance therapy.”

  • Along the way, explore the remaining structures, including antebellum brick columns rising up from rubble piles.

  • But, of course, there was no national control over immigration in the antebellum period because the states would not allow it.

  • During the antebellum decades, as slavery’s apologists ratcheted up their claims that slaveholding was a constitutionally protected property right, abolitionists drew out the antislavery implications of the founding documents.

  • Through the eyes of a character with uncommon access and compassion, Sadeqa Johnson’s novel “The Yellow Wife” evokes a vision of one woman’s tenacious survival of antebellum cruelty and objectification.

  • I know Tom Woods is an intriguing writer, and I too love my liberty, but this is no longer the antebellum era.

  • It showed how the old guard is trying to guide the Treasury secretary and protect the status quo antebellum as much as possible.

  • That was in the antebellum days, before men realized they couldn't oppress their fellows with impunity.

  • Certainly Simms seems to have been the best imaginative writer the antebellum South produced.

  • As the antebellum period of the fifties came on these questions loomed larger in the public view.

  • Here the author shows that Astoria was included in the antebellum conditions of the Treaty of Ghent.

  • The antebellum state-bank regulations were intended to secure the safety of the bank note.