aduant garde
Middle English
editNoun
editaduant garde (plural aduant gardes)
- Avant-garde; vanguard.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book I.15:
- Lyonses and Pharyaunce had the aduant garde, and they two knyghtes mette with kyng Idres and his felauship, and there began a grete medele of brekyng of speres and smytynge of swerdys with sleynge of men and horses.
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