avant-garde
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- adjective
- /ˌævɑ̃ˈɡɑrd/
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vanguardista
- Her fashion line is known for its avant-garde style, often incorporating unexpected materials and shapes.
- avant-garde artists
- avant-garde films
- avant-garde culture
Man, there's something very avant-garde about making love near a deep fryer.
- Man, there's something very avant-garde about making love near a deep fryer.
- It says it's quintessentially avant-garde luxury.
- So I'm trying to say with that, I think it's a good moment to think about avant-garde cooking, what it means to you.
- I like an enchanted look, avant-garde, the high fashion fairy.
- But it it will probably be used within the next month or two to make short films that are maybe avant-garde artistic.
Examples
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It says it's quintessentially avant-garde luxury.
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Although incorporating gaming into the curriculum is still considered avant-garde to some, the argument against it is starting to lose relevance.
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So can one be avant-garde and be popular?
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In one of her classes, she shows an avant-garde film.
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Also well received were excerpts with unusual or avant-garde effects.
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The first way that you can approach exploring avant-garde fashion is to exaggerate shape.
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I was positively blown away by the sheer avant-garde nature of this enterprise.
Blog text (24) -
If you were very avant-garde, you might study more recent writers, too: Pynchon and Vonnegut, perhaps.
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The discussions of the existentialists ran parallel to those of the contemporary French avant-garde, the Surrealists.
Academic text (2009) -
Around the same time the Deram album was released, Bowie met Lindsay Kemp, a British dancer who specialised in mime and avant-garde theatre.
Synonyms
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Relating to new styles in art or music that break from old forms
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Having new ideas or methods to do things better
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Having new, modern ideas or methods that are ahead of others
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To take bold risks and do daring things
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Very unusual in style or ideas
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Relating to new art or design that breaks old styles
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Having a creative, unusual style like an artist
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Willing to take risks to try new things
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Very new in design and using the latest ideas and technology
Introducing new ideas or ways of doing things
Very bold and original, often challenging old ideas and limits
Films that are artistic and not made for a large audience
Antonyms
How Experimental
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Avant-garde comes from French avant 'before' and garde 'guard', the people who stood at the front of an army. That's why we call a film or style avant-garde when it is at the 'front' of new and bold ideas.