avant-garde

Meaning

1. The vanguard of an army or other force.
2. Any group of people who invent or promote new techniques or concepts, especially in the arts.
3. Innovative and pioneering, especially when extremely or obviously so.

Etymology / origin

Unadapted borrowing from French avant-garde (“vanguard”). Doublet of vanguard and vaward.

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