(一般作the avant-garde)
- new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them（尤指艺术领域中的）前卫思想; 先锋派：
works by artists of the Russian avant-garde.
俄国先锋派艺术家的作品。
- favouring or introducing such new ideas前卫的; 激进的; 先锋派的：
a controversial avant-garde composer.
一位颇有争议的先锋派作曲家。
派生词
avant-gardism
nounavant-gardist
noun词源
late Middle English (denoting the vanguard of an army)： from French， literally 'vanguard'. Current senses date from the early 20th cent.