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avant-garde

a·vant-garde [ vaant grd ]


noun  (plural a·vant-gardes)
Definition:
 
artists with new ideas and methods: writers, artists, filmmakers, or musicians whose work is innovative, experimental, or unconventional, considered as a group



adjective 
Definition:
 
1. artistically new: artistically innovative, experimental, or unconventional

2. of avant-garde artists: belonging to the group of writers, artists, filmmakers, or musicians whose work is innovative, experimental, or unconventional

[Early 20th century. < French, "before the guard"]

a·vant-gard·ism noun
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