Pregentrified

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Prior to gentrification. not-comparable

    "So at times does the portrait’s artist, Justin Bua, whose characters are from a world far away in place and time: the pregentrified streets of the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the 1970s and ’80s."

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"So at times does the portrait’s artist, Justin Bua, whose characters are from a world far away in place and time: the pregentrified streets of the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the 1970s and ’80s."

Etymology

From pre- + gentrified.

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