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arrière-garde

[ a-ryer-gard ]

noun

, French.
  1. rear guard.
  2. a group that is behind or out-of-date in any field, especially in one of the arts.


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Example Sentences

He refers to a “lynch mob” of critics “in all their arrière-garde inhumanity” and recalls a “thug in the Guardian” who reviewed the Tate show with “venom”.

L'avant garde et l'arriere-garde seront employées à former les deux ailes.

A French writer expatiating in true Gallic style, calls Morocco the "arrière-garde en Afrique of Islamism," and "une de ses armées de réserve."

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