Thursday, March 01, 2018

Avant-garde


Avant-garde


[a. F. avant-garde, f. avant before + garde GUARD. Formerly anglicized, avaunt-, and -guard; sense 1 is now archaic or obs., being replaced by the aphetic VANGUARD; cf. (ar)rear-guard.] 1. The foremost part of an army; the vanguard or van. 2. The pioneers or innovators in any art in a particular period. Also attrib. or as adj. Hence avant-gardism, the characteristic quality of such pioneering; avant-gardist(e) (-st), such a person; also attrib.

Associated with the underground
Avant-garde Internet Publications: unregulated, almost free, commercially "irrelevant."

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