Avant

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The front of an army; the vanguard. obsolete
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Example

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

Etymology

Abbreviated from avant-garde.

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