Definition of "postbellum" []

• Belonging to the period after a war, especially the U.S. Civil War: postbellum houses; postbellum governments. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "What's funny is the writer actually meant "postbellum" (after the war)."
• "Anachronisms abound, from New Age lingo like “She gives off a bad feeling” to the dialect of the postbellum South: “her borning young.”"
• "The American analogue is the decaying plantation house in Faulkner's postbellum South."