Crossword clues for prewar
prewar
- Period before hostilities
- Like the Great Depression, timewise
- Like the '30s, say
- Like some coveted apartments
- Like apartment buildings with fireplaces and hardwood floors, typically
- Like 1930s prices
- Like 1930s architecture, say
- From the 30's, e.g
- From the 1930s, say
- Describing the Edwardian era
- Ante 1941, e.g
Wiktionary
a. prior to hostilities; in the time before the war; often, before the most recent significant war.
WordNet
adj. existing or belonging to a time before a war; "prewar levels of industrial production" [ant: postwar]
Usage examples of "prewar".
A South American berimbau, a set of golden vibes, a crisp, prewar Martin guitar.
If it took three hundred years to reach Dest, then the newcomer had presumably not come directly from prewar Old Earth by straight-line-course, so it might well have fired off a good bit of its original supply of ammunition at stops along the way, and so far as he knew, it would not have been able to rearm anywhere.
Commander Pel Florens, whose ship left orbit in the morning for a long, dry patrol of the Mageworlds border zone, had already accounted for most of a bottle of prewar Infabede red while listening to his onetime Academy roommate Jervas Gil.
By 1997, Iraqi food imports were higher than prewar levels in terms of dollars allocated.
Like most New Orleanian Creoles, they clung ferociously to their French heritage and to the culture that was the last remaining tie to the prewar life they had once known.
One moon blown to pieces, and virtually every prewar and preliberation satellite shot down by one side or the other.
Prewar, faded and stained, but still gracious and marked with the springlike optimism of the settlement of the Alpha Centauri system.
Like a canary in a prewar coalmine, I check out early when there is violence, when there is poison in the air.
Akatsuka Fujio Certainly in prewar Japan and even into the first twenty years of the postwar, comedic manga were nothing more than pictorial adaptations of the tales told by comedians and rakugo artists.
She needn't deny it, now that she was severing her last tie to him, one, perhaps, which she ought never to have allowed to continue, so many years ago agreeing to sublet, not really very legally, his large, prewar, park side rent-controlled apartment when William was first sent overseas.
The super ego, as the prewar intellectuals had called it, or, before that the ayenbite of inwyt, or some such rustic Medieval old phrase.
I edged my battered prewar Chevvy past a huge two‑hundred-dragonpower Lincoln with sky‑blue handle, polyethylene straw, and blatting radio.
I edged my battered prewar Chevvy past a huge two-hundred -- dragonpower Lincoln with sky-blue handle, polyethyl-ene straw, and blatting radio.
The garage at the side of the house contained a little prewar Simca Cinq, the French version of the Fiat the Italians called the Topolino.
The use of images of characters superimposed over several frames and decorative backdrops is a style which dates back to the lyrical, stylish pictures popular in women's and fashion magazines since the prewar period.