Meaning of postbellum | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of the period following a war.
   not-comparable
2. Of the period following the American Civil War, especially used in reference to the South.
   US, not-comparable

Examples

“For most Europeans, a postbellum world had seemed the self-evident future, says Finland’s president, Sauli Niinistö.”

“Midway through Donald McCaig’s unexpectedly diverting novel, “Rhett Butler’s People,” a black man about to be lynched in the post-bellum South asks Rhett to please shoot him dead before the mob breaks into the jail and does worse.”

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