The Only Use of
antebellum era
in
A Streetcar Named Desire
- 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