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Antebellum   /ˌæntɪbˈɛləm/   Listen
Antebellum

adjective
1.
Belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War.





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... might be imagined by one who formed his opinions on past recollections of London, because, since gasoline was carefully rationed there, taxis were scarce where once they had been numerous. Indeed, I know of no city in which, in antebellum days, taxis were so numerously distributed through almost every quarter of the town as in London. At any busy corner there were almost as many taxicabs waiting and ready to serve you as there are taxicabs in New York whose drivers are cruising ...
— Eating in Two or Three Languages • Irvin S. Cobb


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