The Only Use
antebellum era
in
A Streetcar Named Desire
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- Chance wayne was once barman here; Stuff moves with an indolent male grace that he may have unconsciously remembered admiring in Chance, Boss Finley's mistress, Miss Lucy, enters the cocktail lounge dressed in a ball gown elaborately ruffled and very bouffant like an antebellum Southern belle's.†
Scene 2.2antebellum = U.S. history: pre-Civil War period
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(1)
(antebellum era) U.S. history: pre-Civil War period
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)