Avant la lettre  

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Surrealism avant la lettre from the Bizzarie di varie figure (1624) by Giovanni Battista Braccelli
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Surrealism avant la lettre from the Bizzarie di varie figure (1624) by Giovanni Battista Braccelli

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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

Avant la lettre is a French phrase used to describe something or someone seen as a precursor or forerunner of something (such as an artistic or political movement) before that something was recognized and named, e.g. "a post-modernist avant la lettre", "a feminist avant la lettre"; the expression literally means before the letter, i.e. "before it had a name".

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avant-garde - futurism - greatness - innovation - precursor - early - original - power - proto - seminal (work)

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