different between antebellum vs belligerencu

English

From the Latin ante bellum (literally “before the war”).

antebellum (not comparable)

Of the time period prior to a war.
In the United States of America, of the period prior to the American Civil War, especially in reference to the culture of the southern states.
- 2004, James M. Volo, Dorothy Denneen Volo, The Antebellum Period, Greenwood Publishing Group (?ISBN), page 115:
  There was no single characteristic house style during the antebellum period, but the elegant plantation homes built in the American South, with their central entrances, balconies, columns, and formal ballrooms, came closest to representing a discrete architectural style for the period.

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