avant

noun 1name 1

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noun

The front of an army; the vanguard.

name

A surname.

Before the term was coined (the term being a word or phrase used just previously in an anachronistic way)

Suffragettes were feminists avant la lettre.

If you accept gay marriage ten years after it became the law of the land, you are not avant garde, you are a laggard.

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