post-bellum
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of post-bellum
C19: Latin post after + bellum war
Example Sentences
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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
As the decades after the war went by, that post-bellum victory seemed assured.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2020
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
That state ratified her post-bellum constitution on the 11th of May, 1868, and elected Rufus P. Bullock, governor.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace
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