Avant La Lettre Definition

ȧväō lȧ letp'
adjective
Before the (specified) concept, word, person, etc. existed.
A mid-Victorian matron who was a feminist avant la lettre.
Webster's New World
phrase

(idiomatic) Before the term was coined; used after a term applied anachronistically.

Wiktionary

Origin of Avant La Lettre

  • Borrowing from French avant la lettre (“before the letter”)

    From Wiktionary

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