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moonlight-and-magnolia

moonlight-and-magnolia adjective: of or relating to romanticized historical portrayals of the American South, often depicting slavery in a positive light.

Adjective

moonlight-and-magnolia (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to romanticized historical portrayals of the American South, often depicting slavery in a positive light.
    • Here the myth of a moonlight-and-magnolia South founders on dry empirical realities.2013, David Chinitz, Which Sin to Bear?, page 34
    • The romantic South of myth and legend, the “moonlight and magnolia” South with which plantation epics captured the national imagination in the era of the Lost Cause, has acquired a nightmarish quality; […]2014, Cynthia Stretch, Cristina Alsina Rísquez, Innocence and Loss, page 33

Questions about moonlight-and-magnolia

What does moonlight-and-magnolia mean?
Moonlight-and-magnolia means of or relating to romanticized historical portrayals of the American South, often depicting slavery in a positive light.
What part of speech is moonlight-and-magnolia?
Moonlight-and-magnolia is an adjective.

Words near moonlight-and-magnolia in the dictionary

  1. moonlight requisitions
  2. moonlight school
  3. moonlight schools
  4. moonlight tower
  5. moonlight towers
  6. moonlight-and-magnolia
  7. moonlighted
  8. moonlighter
  9. moonlighters
  10. moonlighting
  11. moonlightings

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