adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective

1. 1
   Of or relating to romanticized historical portrayals of the American South, often depicting slavery in a positive light. not-comparable

   "Here the myth of a moonlight-and-magnolia South founders on dry empirical realities."

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"Here the myth of a moonlight-and-magnolia South founders on dry empirical realities."

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