- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought): (idiomatic) Before the term was coined; used after a term applied anachronistically.
- Suffragettes were feminists avant la lettre. — Suffragettes were feminists before the word "feminist" existed.
- [The events of 1848] were transmuted into a symbol of fraternal multiculturalism avant la lettre.
Saturday, June 1, 2013
avant la lettre
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