moonlight-and-magnolia
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.06 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
7
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to romanticized historical portrayals of the American South, often depicting slavery in a positive light.
Example Sentences
- "Here the myth of a moonlight-and-magnolia South founders on dry empirical realities."
- "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; […]"
- "If a white employer could take so much interest in the child of a black employee, in whom he had no property interest, that would illustrate—as did Hentz's other fiction—the moonlight and magnolia world of Southerners' concern for their slaves."