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单词 Old South
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Definition of Old South in English:

Old South

noun
the Old South
  • The southern states of the US before the civil war of 1861–5.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The rites and customs of the Old South no longer work.
    • This is a workmanlike, competent book, but scholars and interested general readers looking for exciting, substantive work on the planters of the Old South should look elsewhere.
    • In recent years scholarly scrutiny of the Old South has revealed a society more complex, and in particular, more ethnoculturally diverse, than previous generations of historians of the region had been inclined to believe.
    • We meet pro-integration parents and their opponents; all have gone gray, fading a bit, like those familiar images of the Old South, motionless main streets and ‘colored only’ signs.
    • Second, politically it was contrary to the free trade sentiments of the Old South, and it subverted Southern rights of political self-determination and was, therefore, a violation of the original federal compact.
    • Jacksonville, a city of 720,000 residents in the northeast corner of the state, typifies the intersection of the so-called New South with the legacy of racial and class oppression associated with the Old South.
    • Vanderbilt's ongoing lawsuit is perhaps the latest sign of an ever-increasing clash between the ideals of the New South and the historical legacy of the Old South.
    • Embedded in my guide's narrative was the internal division between the mythic memory of the Old South, embodied in the house, and the present reality of history for those Southerners who remain bitter over the outcome of the war.
    • In this respect, her study goes some way toward answering what remains a critical question: why the relative absence of large-scale slave insurrections in the Old South?
    • It is a heritage of the Old South, and emblem of hospitality, and a vehicle in which noble minds can travel together upon the flower-strewn paths of a happy and congenial thought.
    • I am a gay man, and I grew up in rural Southern Georgia, the Heart of the Old South.
    • His biographer has rightly called him a ‘southern nationalist’ and the ‘last of the doctrinaires of the Old South.’
    • The clock of the Old South was striking as I came through Boston, and that is full fifteen minutes agone.
    • Having finally lifted this institution from obscurity and misconception, Hadden's book is must reading for anyone studying the history of American slavery, the Old South, or U.S. law enforcement.
    • Like Eliot, he posits a dissociation of sensibility: in the Old South, he claims, there was insufficient connection between mind and spirit.
    • I have always been a history buff, especially about the Old South.
    • She winds up wearing a gorgeous black coat and homburg-style hat combo which shows that whatever privations war might have brought to the Old South, there's still a branch of DKNY open nearby.
    • He argued instead that the Old South should be viewed as a frontier, a wooded, rich-soiled, sometimes lawless wilderness transformed by the invention of the cotton gin.
    • As the author of our book is a 74-year-old white gentleman from the Old South, which of these fictional creations do you think will absorb his rapt, even obsessive, maybe fetishistic focus?
    • Though it was not solely a sport for aristocrats, quail hunting in the Old South was a favorite pastime of the wealthy planters and blue bloods who sought to emulate European noblemen with their privileges and refinements.
 
 

Definition of Old South in US English:

Old South

nounˌōld ˈsouTH
the Old South
  • The southern states of the US before the Civil War (1861–65).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Embedded in my guide's narrative was the internal division between the mythic memory of the Old South, embodied in the house, and the present reality of history for those Southerners who remain bitter over the outcome of the war.
    • As the author of our book is a 74-year-old white gentleman from the Old South, which of these fictional creations do you think will absorb his rapt, even obsessive, maybe fetishistic focus?
    • Like Eliot, he posits a dissociation of sensibility: in the Old South, he claims, there was insufficient connection between mind and spirit.
    • I am a gay man, and I grew up in rural Southern Georgia, the Heart of the Old South.
    • The rites and customs of the Old South no longer work.
    • Second, politically it was contrary to the free trade sentiments of the Old South, and it subverted Southern rights of political self-determination and was, therefore, a violation of the original federal compact.
    • This is a workmanlike, competent book, but scholars and interested general readers looking for exciting, substantive work on the planters of the Old South should look elsewhere.
    • He argued instead that the Old South should be viewed as a frontier, a wooded, rich-soiled, sometimes lawless wilderness transformed by the invention of the cotton gin.
    • The clock of the Old South was striking as I came through Boston, and that is full fifteen minutes agone.
    • She winds up wearing a gorgeous black coat and homburg-style hat combo which shows that whatever privations war might have brought to the Old South, there's still a branch of DKNY open nearby.
    • In recent years scholarly scrutiny of the Old South has revealed a society more complex, and in particular, more ethnoculturally diverse, than previous generations of historians of the region had been inclined to believe.
    • It is a heritage of the Old South, and emblem of hospitality, and a vehicle in which noble minds can travel together upon the flower-strewn paths of a happy and congenial thought.
    • We meet pro-integration parents and their opponents; all have gone gray, fading a bit, like those familiar images of the Old South, motionless main streets and ‘colored only’ signs.
    • Jacksonville, a city of 720,000 residents in the northeast corner of the state, typifies the intersection of the so-called New South with the legacy of racial and class oppression associated with the Old South.
    • In this respect, her study goes some way toward answering what remains a critical question: why the relative absence of large-scale slave insurrections in the Old South?
    • Though it was not solely a sport for aristocrats, quail hunting in the Old South was a favorite pastime of the wealthy planters and blue bloods who sought to emulate European noblemen with their privileges and refinements.
    • I have always been a history buff, especially about the Old South.
    • Having finally lifted this institution from obscurity and misconception, Hadden's book is must reading for anyone studying the history of American slavery, the Old South, or U.S. law enforcement.
    • Vanderbilt's ongoing lawsuit is perhaps the latest sign of an ever-increasing clash between the ideals of the New South and the historical legacy of the Old South.
    • His biographer has rightly called him a ‘southern nationalist’ and the ‘last of the doctrinaires of the Old South.’
 
 
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