avantgarde (1280-1307)
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avantgarde (1280-1307)

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  FEW:  *wardôn 17,516a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  avantgarde 8,249a TL: garde (avantgarde) 1,709 DEAF:  avantgarde G164 DMF:  avant-garde  TLF:  avant-garde  OED:  avant-garde n.  / avantward n.  MED:  avaunt-gard n.  / avaunt-ward n.  DMLBS:  avantwarda 168b
avauntgarde,  auvantgarde  ii 282  

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1mil.vanguard, foremost part of an advancing army: 
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1 )  En l’avaunt garde (l. la vauntgarde?) estoit […] en chiltruns tant sarré  395.1745
( a.1382; MS: a.1382 )  En quele bataille E. […] avoit l’avauntgarde (l. la vauntgarde?) et le conestable [et] mareschalle ovesqe lui  22.30
( 1383 )  l’avantgarde de l’ost  iii 155
avant#1  garde#1  vantgarde 
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