post-bellum

British  

/ ˈpəʊstˈbɛləm /

adjective

1. (prenominal) of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War

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Etymology

Origin of post-bellum

C19: Latin post after + bellum war

Example Sentences

How did Edith Bolling, born and raised in Wytheville, Va., a sleepy town nestled in post-bellum Appalachia, ultimately become one of the most powerful first ladies in American history?

From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2023

In post-bellum Barbour County, Cowie writes, “peace only prevailed for freed people when federal troops were in town” — and then only barely.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2022

In “The Hateful Eight,” Quentin Tarantino’s post-bellum western, Ms. Leigh’s Daisy Domergue spends nearly all her time handcuffed to a bounty hunter on the way to a promised date with a hangman’s noose.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2015

But behind him, daredevil African-American jockey Babe Hurd—black riders were actually fairly common in the post-bellum South—was weaving his mount, Apollo, between tiring horses.

From Slate • May 2, 2013

Others—I am speaking still of the namesakes, not of the original bearers of the names—had been christened with intent to do honour to indulgent and well-remembered employers of post-bellum days.

From From Place to Place by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)